It's time to stop what you are doing. A circus of fireworks lighting up the darkness of space is what the latest image release from the James Webb Space Telescope looks like.
The object is a well-known object about 500 million light-years away, and it has several distinct, separated structures, the appearance of which gave the object its name.
The structure is thought to be the result of a violent interaction with another smaller galaxy that caused ripples in the sky.
Scientists think that's the source of the big ring and the smaller ring that can be seen around the center of the universe.
There is an image of the Cartwheel galaxy. The NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI is part of the space program.
The results are Cosmic.
Waves of star formation can be triggered by the shocks in interstellar gas, which can cause massive clumps of stars to collapse under their own weight.
The activity is most visible in the wavelength in which the Universe is seen.
The outer ring is bursting with activity as it expands into the gas of the universe.
There are lots of young, hot, massive stars in the inner hub of the galaxy.
The CartwheelGalaxy is very dusty, which is difficult to penetrate in some wavelength, such as optical.
A quick comparison of @NASAHubble's view (2018) of the Cartwheel Galaxy compared to the new @NASAWebb view (2022).
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It has been possible for it to cut through a lot of that dust, revealing never-before-seen details in the CartwheelGalaxy.
There are pockets of star formation, which are colored blue, and orange and yellow regions of older stars and dust in the above image.
The red regions in the image are from an instrument. The silicate dust and hydrocarbons that make up the cartwheel are shown.
Future analysis of this data is expected to reveal more about the amazing universe.
The image was taken by the MIri. The NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI is part of the space program.
The Cartwheel Group of galaxies are shown in these images. Although they do show evidence of intense interactions of their own, none of these galaxies is the one that the Cartwheel collided with.
The spiral to the top left appears to have been disrupted, and it is also showing fireworks. There is a faint tidal tail just beneath the neater spiral.
It's not normal for a galaxy not to have had a fight in the past. Ask our own universe.
There are wallpaper versions of the image on the website.
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