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Астронет: Астрономическая картинка дня Пара сливающихся галактик IIZw096 http://www.variable-stars.ru/db/msg/1860120/eng |
Credit & Copyright: ESA/Webb,
NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans
Explanation:
Bright at infrared wavelengths,
this merging galaxy pair
is some 500 million light-years away toward the
constellation Delphinus.
The
cosmic mashup
is seen against a background of even more distant galaxies,
and occasional spiky foreground stars.
But the galaxy merger itself spans about 100,000 light-years
in this deep
James Webb Space Telescope image.
The image data is from Webb's Near-InfraRed Camera
(NIRCam)
and Mid-InfraRed Instrument
(MIRI).
Their combined, sharp infrared view follows galactic scale
restructuring
in the dusty merger's wild jumble of intense star forming regions
and distorted spiral arms
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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& Michigan Tech. U.