The area photograph of the week exhibits II SW 96. These are two colliding galaxies 500 million light-years from Earth.
The photograph was taken by the James Webb telescope. Due to James Webb’s sharp eye, we see rather more element than on pictures from different (area) telescopes, reminiscent of numerous background galaxies. Simply examine the photograph of James Webb with this Hubble photograph from 2008.
The quite a few galaxies within the background are residence to many billions of stars: from common stars just like the Solar to purple dwarf stars and from blue supergiants to white dwarfs. Thoughts-boggling, if you concentrate on it. Nonetheless, II SW 96 clearly attracts consideration within the area photograph of the week, particularly because the galaxy emits numerous power within the infrared.
II ZW 96 is a so-called infrared galaxy, or LIRG (Luminous Infrared Galaxies). The area object has the luminosity of greater than 100 billion suns mixed. It isn’t shocking that II ZW 96 is an infrared galaxy, as a result of many infrared galaxies present distortions and sometimes they’re galaxies fashioned from collisions. That is clearly the case – definitely within the case of II ZW 96 – as a result of the collision continues to be happening there.
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