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On the galactic scale, 2.5 million light-years (2.3651321 × 10^19 kilometers, the distance between Milkyway and Andromeda Galaxy) distance means the next-door neighbor. Knowing that The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 110 kilometers per second (68 miles per second) makes the word "proximity" even more meaningful.

Our galaxy and The Andromeda Galaxy are on a collision course predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years from now. The collision will be like a cosmic dance, a spectacular series of close passes lasting billions of years (nearly 5 billion years), and finally they will merge into a single elliptical galaxy. 

Even more interestingly, recent measurements showed that the collision of the outer halos of the Andromeda Galaxy and Milkyway Galaxy has already begun.

Galactic Proximity 

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2020 Royal Museums Greenwich Astronomy Photography of The Year Aurora Category Shortlisted.

……. When I turned around towards the Moon, I saw the 22° Moon Halo, half Moon and Aurora Borealis happening all at once. I knew it was a unique moment to capture.

Every astrophotographer and astronomy enthusiast dreams of witnessing and imaging Aurorae. For this reason, I traveled from Turkey to Lapland / Finland.

This image was captured on the final night of my trip to Lapland with my Finnish photographer friends. The weather had made the photography impossible for the previous two nights. The night this photo was taken was not any different in terms of weather so we had to drive nearly 100 km towards North to get clear conditions and aurorae. A while after the arrival Aurora began and got more intense as it went on. People from the nearby resort were so loud, cheering and screaming…..

22° Moon Halo and Aurora 

Billions of years showed in just 10 seconds.

If we lived long enough and shoot Andromeda Galaxy sequentially every couple of thousands of years and at the end of some couple of billions of years created the timelapse it would probably look  like this. The arms of the galaxy revolving around the center where the possible central black hole is.

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Galactic Timelapse

This year Christmas vibes come from the heavens. 

The emission nebula created by the young, energetic stars in the cluster resembles a Christmas Tree. The hydrogen atoms are dying with the radiation from the stars and resurrecting as a glowing new type of hydrogen atom called hydrogen II.

Christmas Tree Cluster is in the constellation of Monoceros and is located about 2.300 light-years from earth.

Photographer: Mustafa AYDIN
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Merry Christmas, The Celestial Way

Pillars of Creation, a part of The Eagle Nebula aka M16, is interstellar gas in the constellation of Serpen, some 6500-7000 light-years from Earth. It was discovered in 1745 by the Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe Loys de Chéseaux.

These branches of cosmic dust and gas are a part of an active star-forming region within the nebulosity. The newborn stars are behind the dust and gas.

Pillars of Creation got very famous with a photo taken by Hubble Space Telescope on April 1, 1995. 

The pillars are under attack of scorching ultraviolet light from young stars. The towers of gas are being eroded by the winds from these stars.

The structures in the Pillars of Creation are stretching roughly 4 to 5 light-years which are relatively small structures compared to the whole Eagle Nebula which is nearly 70x55 light-years.

Photographer: Mustafa AYDIN
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Image Credites: Mustafa AYDIN / Telescope Live 

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