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July - The Butterfly Galaxies

Around 60 million light-years away, in the constellation Virgo, the two galaxies NGC4567 and NGC4568, nicknamed the Butterfly Galaxies because of their wing-like structure, are beginning to collide and merge into each other.

They are seen here in this image captured by the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) instrument, which is mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in the Chilean Andes.

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Year:2023
Month:7

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