The James Webb Telescope reveals the interior of the Cartwheel Galaxy

Another major hit for James-Webb with this composite image of an amazing wheel-shaped galaxy. The penetrating view of a powerful space telescope shows unprecedented detail of this galaxy that collided about 400 million years ago. What do they show us?

picture galaxy wheel chariot taken from Hubble In 2007 and revisited in 2018, we were all stunned by the beauty and complexity of this ring galaxy distorted by a violent collision. Notes in the visual andultraviolet By the famous space telescope that I enjoyed Astronomy scientists For the details of her outer crown, she caught fire due to the birth of a plurality ofstarsthe active central area and its rims, curved helically, which resisted shock.

This time, the different vision of James Webbin’Infrared, provides in-depth knowledge of this interacting galaxy located 500 million light-years from Earth. And so we discover, not without fascination and vertigo, what researchers have not seen before, or only poorly: a skeleton of dust and Gas From ESO 350-40 (his real name), as well as his furan Black hole Center.

A very active galaxy

In the distant past, this so-called cartwheel galaxy was similar to our own, a galaxy Milky Wayhas a helical shape like a whirlwinduntil interactions with other members of its galactic group led to a large-scale collision. Speed With a galaxy, here it is out of frame. That was about 400 million years ago, and now we’re impressed and studying what resulted from that, the evolution, and the changes in that. Morphology The star population is under the influence of shock waves on Clouds from dust. The two concentric rings resemble waves that arose on the surface of the water after a pebble was thrown. The mysterious The largest forms a shimmering crown of young stars whose arrays have been enriched by the violent pressure of issue. The scene is more vivid inside the inner ring and at the heart of the galaxy, visibly in full boiling, as shown in James Webb’s insightful show Which reveals clusters of stars that were once hidden by thick veils of dust.

Composite image that combines notes Mary Nirkam can also see minute details of nearby galaxies and the ejection of many other galaxies spread out in the background over billions of light years. A dazzling sight, “And this is still only the beginning.”