Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. This dramatic image of an interacting pair of galaxies was made using the 1.5 meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory near La Serena, Chile. NGC 1532 is the foreground spiral galaxy laced with dust lanes. The pair is about 70 million light-years away in the southern constellation Eridanus . These galaxies lie close enough together so that each feels the influence of the other's gravity.
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