Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2020 March 4
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                The Slow Dance of Galaxies NGC 5394 and 5395
     Image Credit: [3]Gemini, [4]NSF, [5]OIR Lab, [6]AURA; Text: [7]Ryan
                          Tanner ([8]NASA/[9]USRA)

   Explanation: If you [10]like slow dances, then this may be one for you.
   A single turn in this dance takes [11]several hundred million years.
   Two galaxies, NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, slowly whirl about each other in a
   [12]gravitational interaction that sets off a flourish of sparks in the
   form of new [13]stars. The featured image, taken with the [14]Gemini
   North 8-meter telescope on [15]Maunakea, [16]Hawaii, [17]USA, combines
   [18]four different colors. Emission from [19]hydrogen gas, colored red,
   marks [20]stellar nurseries where new stars drive the evolution of the
   [21]galaxies. Also visible are dark [22]dust lanes that mark gas that
   will eventually become [23]stellar nurseries. If you look carefully you
   will see [24]many more galaxies in [25]the background, some involved in
   their own slow [26]cosmic dances.

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