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WASTED on Instagram: "The Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038 and NGC 4039) collided gravitationally, forming a vast heart-like shape visible in space.   Located 60 million light years away, they have been merging for a billion years, triggering star formation through colliding interstellar gases.   Their iconic antennae structures and cosmic dance are expected to continue for another billion years." Two Stars Colliding, Galaxies Colliding, Colliding Galaxies, Stars Colliding, Heart Galaxy, Interstellar Space, Cosmic Dance, Astronomy Science, Sleep Token

WASTED on Instagram: "The Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038 and NGC 4039) collided gravitationally, forming a vast heart-like shape visible in space. Located 60 million light years away, they have been merging for a billion years, triggering star formation through colliding interstellar gases. Their iconic antennae structures and cosmic dance are expected to continue for another billion years."

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The image above shows a pair of intertwined galaxies known as NGC 6052, located some 230 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules the Son of Zues (aka the Strongman). Though these dueling dynamos were initially discovered way back in 1784 by none other than the famed astronomer William Herschel (the man who discovered Uranus), at the time, they were thought to be a single, oddly shaped irregular galaxy.

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