Breathtaking photo: James Webb recorded the collision of two galaxies

The collision of two spiral galaxies was recorded by the space telescope james webb, With NASA releasing the image.

The collision of the two galaxies, known together as Arp 220, led to the formation of a infrared glow It is bright like Trillion suns. To better understand the intensity of the glow, the brightness of our galaxy (the Milky Way) is equivalent to approx 10 billion suns.

The telescope’s infrared camera and mid-infrared instrument captured the composite image. Arp 220 is located 250 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens and is the brightest of the three galaxy mergers closest to Earth.

according to CNNAnd The two galaxies began colliding about 700 million years agoAs the gas and dust merged, a massive glow was created, reminiscent of the birth of a star.

There are about 200 massive star clusters clustered in this dusty region, 5,000 light-years across, about 5% of the diameter of the Milky Way.

However, in this “small” region there is as much gas as all the gas in our entire galaxy.

Below, a related NASA post:

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