The latest image from the observatory shows a beautiful portrait of the CartwheelGalaxy, a bright object 500 million light-years away that formed from the collision of two galaxies.
New views of Jupiter are one of the best images of the universe we've seen so far. There are pinks, red-oranges, and dull blues in this shot. The CartwheelGalaxy is located in the Sculptor constellation. NASA says that ring galaxies are a lot less common than spiral galaxies.
Waves of new stars can be seen in the new image of the Cartwheel galaxies. "This allows us to better understand the build up of galaxies in the early Universe," said Klaus Pontoppidan in an email.
A double ring structure was created by the collision of Cartwheel. The inner core of Cartwheel is made of hot dust and the bright parts of the ring are made of young stars. The outer ring has been expanding for the last 450 million years, causing star formation as it slams into the gas surrounding it.
The CartwheelGalaxy was previously imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope, but now it has been captured by the Near-Infrared Camera and the Mid-Infrared Instrument. The data in the Cartwheel image appears to be blue, orange, and yellow. The data from the Mid-Infrared instrument is red in color.
The mission of the telescope is to illuminate parts of the universe that are hard to see. The search for alien life will be supported by it. Scientists will continue to get amazing views like this one.
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