The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a stunning picture of the Cartwheel galaxy – one of the strangest galaxies in the universe
The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a picture of one of the strangest galaxies in the universe. The details of the Cartwheel galaxy are obscured by dust, which has made studying it difficult, but the new images from JWST peer through to reveal this weird galaxy in more detail than ever before.
The Cartwheel galaxy is about 500 million light years away and measures about 150,000 light years across. Researchers believe that it was most likely a spiral galaxy before one of its companion galaxies blasted through it like a bullet through a target, sending waves of stars and gas rippling out from the galaxy’s centre and creating the nested ring shapes that we see today.The inner ring that surrounds the relatively old stars at the centre of the galaxy is made mostly of hot, bright dust, along with some huge clusters of young stars.
This image also revealed a region of star formation at the bottom right of the galaxy that is much brighter than researchers expected. As they continue to analyse the image, they will gain more insight into how the Cartwheel galaxy is evolving and what it might look like in the future as the aftermath of its
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