The James Webb Space Telescope continues to share fascinating visuals from around the universe. The latest image allows us to take a closer look at the collision process of the two galaxies.
The James Webb Space Telescope, which is our eyes and ears in the universe and has captured many fascinating images since its inception, galaxies, star formation and the emergence of the universe continues to send images that will help us understand.
If the last images In the future, our galaxy will also be in it. reveals fascinating details about a process; the process of ‘colliding’ two galaxies. This formation, called Arp 220, consists of two spiral galaxies in the process of merging, and these galaxies began ‘colliding’ 700 million years ago.
The merging process of galaxies triggered the birth of a new star, which is a massive ‘burst of light’
Arp 220, which is 250 million light years away from us and consists of two galaxies, is also the ‘closest’ to us. The brightest of the three galaxy mergers. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope had previously discovered the cores of these main galaxies, located 1,200 light-years apart. The merging cores of these two galaxies are each surrounded by ‘rings’ that fuel star formation.
The image of this process, in which huge energies are released, is with more than a trillion solar brightness. By comparison, the Milky Way Galaxy is only ten billion Suns bright…
If you want to take a closer look;
This is how Hubble had captured the same landscape before;
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https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-captures-the-spectacular-galactic-merger-arp-220