The James Webb Space Telescope continues to deliver amazing images of our universe and here you can check out a new image that was released yesterday. The image shows the ring galaxy Cartwheel Galaxy, two smaller spiral galaxies and a host of other galaxies in the background.
The Wagonwheel Galaxy is located approximately 500 million light years from us and is the result of two galaxies that collided with each other and formed a new galaxy structure, NASA writes in a press release. You write further:
“The collision most notably affected the galaxy’s shape and structure. The Cartwheel Galaxy sports two rings — a bright inner ring and a surrounding, colorful ring. These two rings expand outwards from the center of the collision, like ripples in a pond after a stone is tossed into it. Because of these distinctive features, astronomers call this a “ring galaxy,” a structure less common than spiral galaxies like our Milky Way.
The bright core contains a tremendous amount of hot dust with the brightest areas being the home to gigantic young star clusters. On the other hand, the outer ring, which has expanded for about 440 million years, is dominated by star formation and supernovas. As this ring expands, it plows into surrounding gas and triggers star formation.”
Here below, you can check out a picture of the Wagonwheel galaxy that the Hubble space telescope took in 2010, something that shows the difference between the capabilities of the two space telescopes.
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