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Antennae Galaxies are NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 interacting galaxies located in the Corvus galaxy about 60 million light-years from Earth.
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It was discovered in 1785 by the British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel.
As a result of the collision between the two galaxies mentioned above,
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The dust particles formed into two tails, which got its name from the fact that it has the shape of an insect’s antennae.
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The post is a combination of a visible light image taken by Hubble and a radio image taken by Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA).
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