NGC 1531, NGC 1532 Wall Art tapestry the submillimetre emission is shown

the submillimetre emission is shown as the blue clouds surrounding the reddish glow of the ionised gas (shown with data from the SuperCosmos H-alpha 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

From archival images obtained by the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope (seen here) as well as from observations done with the APEX 12-metre sub-millimetre telescope

300 miles (95

NGC 1531, NGC 1532 Wall Art tapestry the submillimetre emission is shownThe 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