NASA’s US$10-billion James Webb Space Telescope released four new scientific images on 12 July, including newborn stars sparkling through dramatic ‘cliffs’ of gas, and galaxies interacting in an intricate cosmic dance. A day earlier, astronomers had marvelled at its very first image, a ...
This lining up of galaxies can be helpful for astronomers performing certain types of research though. “Chance galactic alignments such as this provide astronomers with the opportunity to delve into the distribution of dust in these galaxies,” Hubble scientistswrite. “Galactic dust – the dark te...
Stunning new Webb images: baby stars, colliding galaxies and hot exoplanetsAstronomical instrumentationAstronomy and astrophysicsExoplanetsAnticipation of future science grows as NASA releases unprecedented glimpses of the night sky.doi:10.1038/d41586-022-01931-5Alexandra Witze...
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A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows one of the universe's most dramatic events: the colliding of two galaxies. The pair, known as Arp 107, are located located 465 million light-years away and have been pulled into strange shapes by the gravitational forces of the interacti...
The colliding galaxies of Arp 107, this time seen by the JWST's MIRI instrument alone. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI) There are many similarities between Arp 107 and another set of interacting galaxies seen by the JWST, the Cartwheel Galaxy. However, Arp 107 doesn't exactly look...
Hubble Space Telescope shows two colliding galaxies in optical and infrared light showing regions of star birth created during the chaos of the collision.NASA/ESA/STScI Hubble's Fabulous Orion Nebula A Hubble Space Telescope view of the Orion Nebula.NASA/ESA/STScI ...
depicting thousands of galaxies shining around other galaxies whose light has been bent. During the announcement, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson put the image into perspective, saying, “If you held a grain of sand at the tip of your finger at arm’s length, that’s the part of the universe...
VV 340, also known as Arp 302, provides a textbook example of colliding galaxies seen in the early stages of their interaction. The edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the face-on galaxy at the bottom of the image is VV 340 South. Millions of years later ...
depicting thousands of galaxiesshining around other galaxies whose light has been bent. During the announcement, NASA AdministratorBill Nelson put the image into perspective, saying,"If you held a grain of sand at the tip of your finger at arm's length, that's the part of the universe that...