Saturday, November 30, 2024

James Webb Space Telescope captures amazing view of galactic mashup - YouTube - Space.com - astrophysics/cosmology

Tbe NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has caputred images of Arp 107,a merger between an elliptical and spiral galaxies in the near-infrared and middle-infrared wavelengths.Arp 107 is 465,000,000 light years from Earth,so right next door.*Cosmology is the study of the origin,evo;ution and structures of the universe.*The merger of galaxies results in a burst of new star formation.The supermassive black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy makes it extremely bright because of its accretion disk,an Active Galactic Nucleus.

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