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Antennae Galaxies

Galaxy · Galaxies in the constellation Corvus

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Antennae Galaxies
Picture: ESA/Hubble & NASA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

About the Antennae Galaxies

The light we see from it set out 0.0651 billion years ago, when the universe was 13.7 billion years old (redshift 0.004519).

The map lists it as a galaxy and shows it at the scale of the large-scale universe, drawn on the supergalactic plane.

Its distance or nature is debated, and the map shows one published value.

A colliding pair. Distance contested between 13 and 22 Mpc.

Key numbers

Distance65.23 million light-years (20.00 Mpc)
Redshift z0.004519
Light travel time0.0651 billion years
Universe's age when this light left13.7 billion years
Distance methodredshift-independent (literature)
Supergalactic coordinatesSGL 131.8°, SGB -17.3°

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Virgo Supercluster, a view about 230 million light-years across.

From Wikipedia

The Antennae Galaxies are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They are currently going through a starburst phase, in which the collision of clouds of gas and dust, with entangled magnetic fields, causes rapid star formation. They were discovered by William Herschel in 1785.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Antennae Galaxies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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