Two Galaxies Separated by Tens of Millions of Light Years, but Appear to be Colliding Due to Forced Perspective
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Their respective distance to our Solar System is a lot bigger than the distance between the two.
Galaxy in front is 117 Mly; one in the back 140 Mly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3314
7:08 PM Dec 23 2014