Posted on 12/02/2022 6:03:38 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Bright at infrared wavelengths, this merging galaxy pair is some 500 million light-years away toward the constellation Delphinus. The cosmic mashup is seen against a background of even more distant galaxies, and occasional spiky foreground stars. But the galaxy merger itself spans about 100,000 light-years in this deep James Webb Space Telescope image. The image data is from Webb's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). Their combined, sharp infrared view follows galactic scale restructuring in the dusty merger's wild jumble of intense star forming regions and distorted spiral arms
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Awesome. I don’t know what else to say.
Well put.
There may be some damage in that collision, but I think it will buff out.
Is the Ford Galaxy 500 million light years away?
We have to admire Galileo for pointing that first little telescope at the Moon, Saturn, and Jupiter. He had no idea what he started…
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Mtn. Climber, thanks!
Happy for the false color images. (For wavelengths we can’t sense!) So much better than just black and white.
Black Hole battle of the fittest?
All those galazies in the disatance are what I try to get a grip on. How many species are out there that will never be known?
It looks like an unborn baby.
I thought that the loud rumble I heard was just a nearby thunderstorm...
Our galaxy and Andromeda will be colliding so that photo is our future.
Aren’t you a ray of darkness, in an otherwise bleak day!
Nice photos of galaxies colliding and one of our own in the future.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/08/galaxy-mergers-colliding-cosmic-matter-milky-way-andromeda/671164/
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