https://www.spacescoop.org/en/scoops/2208/a-cosmic-duet/

Astronomers have just captured a new image of a beautiful sort of “dance” between two galaxies: the spiral NGC 1512, it’s the pretty, large, barred spiral in the picture, and its small neighbor NGC 1510. 

 

You’ll find a link to the picture here:

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2210/

 

They’re located in the direction of constellation Horologium, or The Clock, some 60 million light-years from us, in Earth’s southern sky. Such galaxy mergers are common. Our own Milky Way is currently merging with several dwarf galaxies, most prominently the large and small Magellanic Clouds.

 

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