A new view of a star birth factory has been captured by the Hubble Telescope.
The elliptical galaxy NGC 541 shines brightly in the upper right, while the dwarf galaxy Minkowski's Object glows in blue towards the bottom left of the picture. NASA officials wrote in a statement that Minkowski's object is bursting with stars and has been influenced by its larger neighbor.
The dwarf galaxy is named after a German-American astronomer who studied the evolution of the universe.
There are the best Hubble Space Telescope images.
NASA officials said that the radio jet from NGC 541 probably caused the star formation. The gas is compressed by the jet until the molecule becomes ionized.
"Energy leaves the cloud in the form of radiation as the ionized gas transitions from its higher-energy state to a lower-energy state," NASA said. The clouds collapse as the weather cools.
The agency said that it was likely created from a merger of two other galaxies. The streams from the accretion disk surrounding the black hole in the center of the galaxy were seen by telescopes.
NASA believes the radio activity was caused by debris from nearby mergers. One of the reasons Hubble was looking at the region was the busy area.
The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble are trying to understand how stars form. The telescope will be able to look at some of the universe's first galaxies once it is finished.
According to NASA, the research on galaxies will look at topics such as mergers and black holes.
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