Sometimes you have to just sit back and marvel at a particularly gorgeous view of a galaxy interaction.
When these giant space cities merge with each other, wild and crazy things happen – a sort of"Galaxies Gone Wild" scenario. Take this pair, for example. We see them locked together in a cosmic dance that has lasted for not quite a half-billion years.With each turn on the intergalactic dance floor, they change each other permanently. Eventually, they'll combine to make one giant galaxy.
Galaxies lie far apart in space, but they interact with each other throughout cosmic time. The dances they do are how they grow and change. This includes our own Milky Way. Their gravitational attraction to each other spurred great waves of star formation, particularly in the outer spiral arms of the larger galaxy. That created what astronomers call"starbursts" and splashed long blue strings of hot young stars out to space.. Someday, these massive stars will explode as supernovae and add a bit of a fireworks display to the long galactic dance.
Ultimately, they'll merge completely with each other to form a giant galaxy, probably an elliptical one. But, that's way far in the future.This galactic dance scene is part of a larger image captured by the Blanco Telescope, outfitted with theCamera . The DECam was built for use by the Dark Energy Survey. That's a project to map hundreds of millions of galaxies and detect supernovae.
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