C60 & C61: The Antennae Galaxies

A ground-based telescopic view on the left shows the long tails of the Antennae galaxies. On the right, a natural-color image taken by Hubble in 1996 shows the respective cores of the twin galaxies (the orange blobs) crisscrossed by filaments of dark dust. A wide band of chaotic dust, called the overlap region, stretches between the cores of the two galaxies.