Astronomy: Antennae Galaxies

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Antennae Galaxies The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038/NGC 4039 or Caldwell 60/Caldwell 61) are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They are currently going through a starburst phase, in which the collision of clouds of gas and dust, with entangled magnetic fields, causes rapid star formation.

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Antennae Galaxies The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038/NGC 4039 o r Caldwell 60/Caldwell 61) are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They are currently going through a starburst phase, in which the collision of clouds of gas and dust, with entangled magnetic fields, causes rapid star formation. They were discovered by William Herschel in 1785.

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Why Antennae Galaxies matters: Galaxies ar e the fundamental building blocks of the visible universe. Studying them reveals how matter organized itself after the Big Bang and continues to evolve billions of years later.

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Deep dive: Antennae Galaxies Antennae Galaxies continues to be an active area of research in modern astronomy. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennae_Galaxies (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)