November 19, 2016
Cosmos Editorial
ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) / M. Kaufman
Astronomers spend their time gazing out into the universe — and occasionally the universe seems to peer right back!
This image, a composite of data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows a very rare cosmic sight: a pair of interacting galaxies that have taken on an ocular structure.
These two galaxies are named IC 2163 (left) and NGC 2207 (right). The duo lies approximately 114 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation of Canis Major (The Greater Dog).
