Galactic Merger Size:Medium - 16" x 12" I can only guess that

I can only guess that this thing has a lot of depth

This loving couple resides 300 million light years away toward the Andromeda constellation

The size indicated is the "leaf size"

2021 rising over Mackinac Island

Galactic Merger Size:Medium - 16" x 12" I can only guess thatThese two galaxies are in their first brush of interaction. Both are relatively undisturbed looking, but studies have shown them to be physically overlapping with intense star formation at their interface. This means over the coming millions of years, these stars will be strewn all about intergalactic space as gravitational forces slowly tear existing structures apart and begin a process of merger. Often this creates tidal tails, or streams of stars,