Zoom into Galaxy NGC 3256 in Vela | James Webb Space Telescope

Zoom into Galaxy NGC 3256 in Vela | James Webb Space Telescope

This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to the peculiar galaxy NGC 3256. This Milky Way-sized galaxy lies about 120 million light-years away in the constellation Vela, and is a denizen of the Hydra-Centaurus Supercluster.

This distorted galaxy is the wreckage of a head-on collision between two spiral galaxies which likely occurred 500 million years ago, and it is studded with clumps of young stars which were formed as gas and dust from the two galaxies collided.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

Duration: 53 seconds

Release Date: July 3, 2023

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