Galactic Merger Size:Medium - 16" x 12" but the select few are

but the select few are truly gems of the night sky

Sometimes the compositions just make themselves

Due to the distance

2021 rising over Mackinac Island

This is an image I took of totality from August 21

Galactic Merger Size:Medium - 16" x 12" but the select few areThese 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,