NGC 1531, NGC 1532 Wall Art tapestry 300 miles (95

300 miles (95

This is an image of MyCn18

Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey

The image covers more than one and a half square degree — an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon — with a total of about 370 million pixels

extending to the top right and bottom left of the image

NGC 1531, NGC 1532 Wall Art tapestry 300 miles (95The pair of galaxies NGC 1531 2, engaged in a spirited waltz, is located about 70 million light years away towards the southern constellation Eridanus (The River). The deformed foreground spiral galaxy laced with dust lanes NGC 1532 is so close to its companion the background galaxy with a bright core just above the centre of NGC 1532 that it gets distorted: one of its spiral arms is warped and plumes of dust and gas are visible above its disc. The