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NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, an interacting pair of galaxies in the Canes Venatici constellation. Their merger will be known collectively as the Heron Galaxy. (International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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By time they finish merging we will have likely evolved into a new species or even more likely ‘extincted’ ourselves it seems and even if the phrase “Heron Galaxy” was saved on a Millennium disk that data would be long gone.