Galactic Merger Size:Medium - 16" x 12" This loving couple resides 300

This loving couple resides 300 million light years away toward the Andromeda constellation

The size indicated is the "leaf size"

but the select few are truly gems of the night sky

I love a backyard with a view

Galactic Merger Size:Medium - 16" x 12" This loving couple resides 300These two galaxies are in their first brush of interaction. Both are relatively undisturbed looking, but studies have shown them to be physically overlapping with intense star formation at their interface. This means over the coming millions of years, these stars will be strewn all about intergalactic space as gravitational forces slowly tear existing structures apart and begin a process of merger. Often this creates tidal tails, or streams of stars,