Space is big and scary, and a new video created from data from the Webb Space Telescope shows the vast distances that separate us from the objects we’re trying to observe. In this case, it is the Wagon Wheel Galaxyone of the recent goals of the Webb.
Webb has amazed us since the first images to full color of the observatory in July. Earlier this month, NASA and its international partners released an incredible image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, a chaotic structure some 500 million light-years from Earth, formed by the collision of two smaller galaxies.
The Cartwheel Galaxy is an impressive testimony to the impressive optics of the Webb. But a new video released by the European Space Agency shows what far that this that stuff. the zoom cinematographic shown here will make you feel really, absurdlyincredibly small.
“The observations of Webb capture the Carro de Carro in a very transitory stage. the way that will take the Wagon Wheel Galaxygiven these two competing forces remains a mystery. However, this snapshot provides insight into what has happened to the galaxy in the past and what it will do in the future,” ESA said in a statement. a press release .
The Wagon Wheel Galaxy formed when two galaxies collided, “like ripples in a pond following a stone is thrown,” as describes NASA. They are inner core consists of hot dust and the brightest parts of the ring harbor gigantic clusters of young stars. The outer ring has been expanding for the past 440 million years, causing star formation. when the outer ring collides con the gas that surrounds it.
The Webb is just starting to operate and might be for the next 20 years. It will show us the infrared universe as we have never seen it before.
