NASA - A Galactic Spectacle “The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA’s Great Observatories—the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red). The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like “arms,” seen in wide-angle views of the system.”