Cosmic destruction and stellar creation goes hand in hand in this stunning new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.
A new James Webb Space Telescope image shows a collision of two galaxies in incredible detail.
That dazzling destructive force creates a host of new stars, visible now like never before, thanks to James Webb's infrared imagers. The two merging galaxies, referred to collectively as IC 1623, are producing stars at a rate 20 times faster than our own Milky Way galaxy,Other observatories, including the Hubble Space Telescope, have imaged the cosmic collision. However, James Webb, the most powerful space observatory launched to date, could use its infrared instruments to peer through enormous dust clouds and reveal previously unseen details.
James Webb has shown its impressive capacity for peering through space dust on numerous occasions now.
The merging galaxies in the James Webb image are located approximately 270 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Cetus. Astronomers believe the dramatic galactic collision might be forming a black hole at the merging galaxies' center, though they so far don't have any evidence.
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