Zoom into The Cartwheel Galaxy | James Webb Space Telescope

Zoom into The Cartwheel Galaxy | James Webb Space Telescope

This video takes the viewer on a journey that zooms through space to reveal the Cartwheel Galaxy. 

This image of the Cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which reveals details that are difficult to see in the individual images alone.

Webb’s observations capture Cartwheel in a very transitory stage. The form that the Cartwheel Galaxy will eventually take, given these two competing forces, is still a mystery. However, this snapshot provides perspective on what happened to the galaxy in the past and what it will do in the future.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Webb, NASA, Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, N. Bartmann  

Music: tonelabs - Happy Hubble (tonelabs.com)

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: August 8, 2022

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