background image: NGC 4258 (M106)



two galaxies are observed, very nearly an end-on view of two interacting Birkeland currents curving nearly 30 degrees to the right. The galaxies pertain to two pinches along the current pair, an early time peculiar x-ray galaxy (front, blue) and a later-time spiral galaxy (rear, red) that has passed through an intense electromagnetic radiation burst into a more quiescent emission phase.



the galaxy colors very nearly match those shown in the simulation movie.



The 'forked' ends of the early time galaxy are typical of equivalent interacting plasmas recorded in the laboratory.