An incredible image of a Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope was released by NASA on Tuesday.
The image provides new information about the black hole at the galaxy’s core and how stars are born, according to a report.
Near the Cartwheel Galaxy, which lies in the Sculptor constellation roughly 500 million light-years away, smaller galaxies are also visible, the report noted.
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The impressive wagon-wheel shape of the Cartwheel Galaxy is the product of a collision between one large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy.
Webb is on a roll! ?
This new @NASAWebb near and mid-infrared composite image highlights the Cartwheel Galaxy, the result of a high-speed collision that occurred about 440 million years ago, along with two neighboring galaxies. Get the details: https://t.co/c8lEVBBlub pic.twitter.com/eVe8m0k6N7
— NASA (@NASA) August 2, 2022
Bright, colorful rings that stem from the galaxy’s center of hot dust and star clusters are the inspiration for the name “ring galaxy,” according to the report.
The Cartwheel Galaxy has an inner and outer ring.
The latter has been expanding for almost 440 million years, the report noted.
“Webb’s observations underscore that the Cartwheel is in a very transitory stage. The galaxy, which was presumably a normal spiral galaxy like the Milky Way before its collision, will continue to transform,” NASA said.
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“While Webb gives us a snapshot of the current state of the Cartwheel, it also provides insight into what happened to this galaxy in the past and how it will evolve in the future.”
