NASA telescope captures cosmic dance that began millions of years ago (video)

James Webb’s advanced capabilities allow it to capture detailed images and spectra in infrared light, revealing aspects of the universe invisible to the human eye.

Space telescope James Webb Ha NASA It celebrates its second scientific anniversary with a stunning image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142. These galaxies are called The Penguin (NGC 2936) and an egg (NGC 2937), engaged in a cosmic dance begun by 25 to 75 million years.

Its advanced features James Webb It allows him to take detailed images and spectra in infrared light, revealing aspects of the universe invisible to the human eye.

Galaxy The PenguinOriginally a spiral galaxy, it now has a striking appearance with its galactic center shining like an eye. Its outstretched arms have transformed into a beak, head, spine, and puffy tail.

Instead, the galaxy an egg It remains relatively unchanged. As an elliptical galaxy, it contains older stars and much less gas and dust, limiting the formation of new stars.

Arp 142 is estimated to be about 100,000 light yearsThat’s a relatively close distance from an astronomical perspective. For comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy and its nearest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, are about to be 2.5 million light years It is expected to react approximately 4 billion years.

The telescope’s ability to detect galaxies that are farther away, redder and dustier than previous observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope underscores its potential to expand our understanding of the universe.