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Recent images from James Webb Space Telescope shows the collision of two galaxies in incredible detail. That dazzling destructive power has created a host of new stars.
“Things like this can be seen now, thanks to James Webb’s infrared imager. The two merging galaxies, collectively referred to as IC 1623, are producing stars at speeds 20 times faster than our own galaxy, the Milky Way,” he said. affirmed the European space agency ESA. , quoted by Interesting Engineering, Saturday (10/29/2022).
Stunning new IC 1623 images from other observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope, have captured a cosmic collision. However, James Webb, the most advanced space observatory to date, can use its infrared instruments to peer through huge clouds of dust and reveal details never seen before.
James Webb has demonstrated his impressive ability to peer through space dust on numerous occasions. James Webb’s Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument played a key role, for example, in the Carina Nebula star nursery images released alongside James Webb’s first set of scientific observations.
In the case of IC 1623, James Webb’s MIRI and NIRCam instruments combined to reveal a bright center that emits so much infrared light that the galaxy produces the pattern of refraction normally seen when James Webb describes a bright star. A new study detailing James Webb’s latest images has been published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Comparing James Webb’s observations of IC 1623 with old Hubble images shows how the new images reveal the structure of previously hidden galaxies in the form of red material present at the center of the merging galaxies.
The galaxy joining in James Webb’s image is located approximately 270 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Cetus. Astronomers believe that dramatic galactic collisions may have formed black holes at the center of the merging of galaxies, although so far they have no evidence.
The $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope only began scientific operations in July 2022 and has already demonstrated its ability to reveal impressive new details about our universe, including images of galaxies at a later maturation stage than previously thought. previously.
James Webb has also recently imagined the so-called Pillars of Creation. Image capture is another brilliant demonstration of James Webb’s ability to peer through the dust clouds and image regions of space where new stars are born.
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