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The Cartwheel Galaxy
The first image of the Cartwheel Galaxy and its companion is a composite from JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). It shows details that are difficult to see in the individual images by themselves. The second image emphasizes the mid-infrared light captured by MIRI, revealing young stars and details in the dusty regions within the galaxy.
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The Cartwheel Galaxy
The Cartwheel Galaxy (aka ESO 350-40) is a ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It is about 150,000 light-years diameter. The galaxy was once a normal spiral galaxy before it apparently underwent a head-on collision with a smaller companion approximately 200 million years ago. When the other galaxy passed through the Cartwheel Galaxy, the collision caused a powerful shock wave. Moving at high speed, the shock wave swept up gas and dust, creating a starburst around the galaxy’s center portion forming the bluish ring around the central brighter portion. The galaxy appears to be retaking the form a spiral galaxy with thin arms beginning to spread from its central core. The Cartwheel contains an exceptionally large number of black hole binary X-ray sources because many massive stars formed in the ring.
Image Credit: ESA / NASA
The Cartwheel Galaxy
The Cartwheel Galaxy (also known as ESO 350-40) is a lenticular and ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The ring resulted from a collision between two galaxies that would have been observed for the first time on Earth at the beginning of the Jurassic Period 200 million years ago. What we see today took 200 million years to develop, based on rate analysis of expanding gases.
Image Credit: NASA
The Cartwheel Galaxy
The Cartwheel Galaxy is a ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. It is an estimated 150,000 light-years diameter. The galaxy was once a normal spiral galaxy before it apparently underwent a head-on collision with a smaller companion approximately 200 million years ago. When the other galaxy passed through the Cartwheel Galaxy, the collision caused a powerful shock wave. Moving at high speed, the shock wave swept up gas and dust, creating a starburst around the galaxy’s center portion forming the bluish ring around the central brighter portion. The galaxy appears to be retaking the form a spiral galaxy with thin arms beginning to spread from its central core.
Image Credit: ESA / NASA
The Cartwheel Galaxy
The Cartwheel Galaxy (also known as ESO 350-40) is a lenticular and ring galaxy about 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The ring resulted from a collision between two galaxies that would have been observed for the first time on Earth at the beginning of the Jurassic Period 200 million years ago. What we see today took 200 million years to develop, based on rate analysis of expanding gases.
Image Credit: NASA