A brilliant starburst feature shines in the latest image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.
The space observatory captured a bright burst of star formation triggered by two spiral galaxies crashing into one another.
The scintillating light show from the ultra-luminous infrared galaxy is the spiked starburst feature at the center of the new Webb image, which was released on Monday.Arp 220 is located 250 million light-years away in the Serpens constellation, and it's the brightest of the three galactic mergers closest to Earth.
There are around 200 massive star clusters contained in a dusty region that stretches 5,000 light-years across, which is about 5% of the Milky Way's diameter. Yet there is enough gas in this small region, astronomically speaking, to replace all of the gas in the entire Milky Way.
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