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A Cosmic Waltz, XXX Million Light-Years Away
Meet NGC 5395 and NGC 5394 — two galaxies locked in a graceful gravitational dance in the constellation Canes Venatici. Separated by millions of light-years but bound by invisible forces, these galaxies are slowly spiraling around each other in a rotation that takes hundreds of millions of years to complete.
As they interact, their gravitational pull ignites bursts of star formation — visible here in red hydrogen emissions, marking active stellar nurseries. The **dark dust lanes you see are clouds of gas, quietly waiting their turn to become the next generation of stars.
Look closer and you’ll spot countless background galaxies, each with its own story playing out across the vast expanse of space.
Credit: NSF National Optical Astronomy Research Laboratory / Gemini Observatory / AURA
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