Tour The Galactic 'Eyes' of IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | NASA Webb & Hubble

Tour The Galactic 'Eyes' of IC 2163 & NGC 2207 | NASA Webb & Hubble

This video tours a pair of spiral galaxies, IC 2163 at left and NGC 2207 at right, that reside 114 million light-years from Earth. The journey begins and ends on a new image that combines mid-infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes, and includes brief fades to Webb’s mid-infrared image and Hubble’s visible and ultraviolet light image.

Watch as these spellbinding observations are pulled apart, and then presented again as a combined observation. 

The tour features star formation in chilling detail, blood-red shock fronts, and traces of ancient supernova explosions that “echo” through the cosmic landscape.

Both galaxies have increased star formation rates. Combined, they are estimated to form the equivalent of two dozen new stars that are the size of the Sun annually. Our Milky Way galaxy forms the equivalent of two or three new Sun-like stars per year.

Both galaxies have hosted seven known supernovae, each of which may have cleared space in their arms, rearranging gas and dust that later cooled, and allowed new many stars to form.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)

Duration: 3 minutes, 18 seconds

Release Date: Oct. 31, 2024

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