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An amateur astrophotographer, Damian Meyer, captured a sharp deep-space image of the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/NGC 4039) about 45 million light-years away, revealing tidal tails, dense star-forming regions, and gas streams as the galaxies collide, made with a Sky-Watcher Esprit 120 and careful exposure stacking.
Astrophotographer Greg Meyer captured a near-21-hour deep-space image of the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/NGC 4039) in Corvus as they violently merge into a single elliptical galaxy, revealing orange-yellow cores, tangled dust, and sweeping tidal tails that fuel bursts of star formation; shot with a Sky-Watcher Esprit 120 at Starfront Observatory in Texas, the photo highlights the dramatic gravitational tug-of-war and the likely dispersion of most newly formed star clusters over time.