She moves with grace and serene beauty a veritable maelstrom of light and color drifting through the vast and empty darkness her swirling dress of stars flowing elegantly behind “do you see me now?” she whispers softly
He saw her long, long ago but everything moves so slowly in this, the void patience and time finally within earshot “may I?” he offers his hand
They spin for ages each rotation profoundly shifting the very space around them lost in each other’s burning eyes drawn ever closer until the day that two become one
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Arp 256 is a stunning system of two spiral galaxies, about 350 million light-years away, in an early stage of merging. The image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, displays two galaxies with strongly distorted shapes and an astonishing number of blue knots of star formation that look like exploding fireworks. The star formation was triggered by the close interaction between the two galaxies. This image was taken by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). It is a new version of an image already released in 2008 that was part a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken for Hubble’s 18th anniversary.
Objects, and the Distance Between Them 