NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the Cartwheel Galaxy, some 500 million light-years away. The galaxy was captured using the observatory's NIRCam.
Power Player of the Week: John Durning, deputy project manager for the James Webb Space Telescope Project reveals the Cartwheel Galaxy in stunning detail. Pictured alongside two smaller companion galaxies, the Cartwheel Galaxy is located about 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation.
Its wagon-wheel-esque appearance is the aftermath of a collision between a large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy that is not pictured. Because of the colorful inner and outer rings expanding from the center, astronomers call this a"ring galaxy." The outside ring has expanded for 440 million years and is dominated by star formation and supernovas.
A large pink, speckled galaxy resembling a wheel with a small, inner oval, with dusty blue in between on the right, with two smaller spiral galaxies about the same size to the left against a black background.It sees wavelengths of light that can reveal even more stars.This image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument shows a group of galaxies, including a large distorted ring-shaped galaxy known as the Cartwheel.
"NIRCam also reveals the difference between the smooth distribution or shape of the older star populations and dense dust in the core compared to the clumpy shapes associated with the younger star populations outside of it," the agency said in a release with the image.
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