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The Antennae Galaxies move closer | Science Codex

The Antennae Galaxies move closer

Posted On: May 9, 2008 - 2:16pm

New research on the Antennae Galaxies using the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows that this benchmark pair of interacting galaxies is in fact much closer than previously thought -- 45 million light-years instead of 65 million light-years.