Antennae Galaxies are locked in a 'deadly embrace'

Today's Image of the Day from the European Space Agency features a pair of interacting spiral galaxies known as the Antennae Galaxies. The colliding galaxies are located approximately 45 million light-years away in the constellation Corvus. They are famous for their dramatic, sweeping tails of stars and gas, which resemble insect antennae Antennae Galaxies in a deadly embrace “The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the best ever image of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble has released images of these stunning galaxies twice before, once...