In never-before-seen detail, the Cartwheel galaxy is captured in a stunning new image from the James Webb space telescope. Our understanding of the strange wheel-like star system has been furthered by the telescope's image.
The Cartwheel galaxy is 500 million light-years away from Earth. It hides a history of violence.
According to NASA representatives, the appearance of the wheel of a wagon is the result of a high-speed collision between a large spiral galaxy and a smaller one.
The CartwheelGalaxy has a cartwheel shape now, but it was a spiral before the collision. Two visible rings spread out from the impact site after the collision at the center of the CartwheelGalaxy. There are clusters of young stars in the inner ring and newborn stars and supernovas in the outer ring. There are streaks between the two rings that are still visible.
The space telescope broke its record after a week.
The image shows what happens to the acrobat when it is hit by another object.
There are two companion galaxies to the left of the CartwheelGalaxy.
More stars than could be seen in visible light can be seen in the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. According to the statement, young stars are easier to see than older ones.
The successor to the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in December of 2011. Hubble was able to detect objects 100 times fainter.
It was originally published on Live Science
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