Galactic Merger Size:Medium - 16" x 12" This is a view of

This is a view of the annular solar eclipse of June 10

placing it somewhere around the apparent size of Mercury in the sky

This loving couple resides 300 million light years away toward the Andromeda constellation

This is an image I took of totality from August 21

Galactic Merger Size:Medium - 16" x 12" This is a view ofThese 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,