Zoom into the Cartwheel Galaxy
This video takes the viewer on a journey that zooms through space to reveal the Cartwheel Galaxy.
This image of the Cartwheel and its companion galaxies is a composite from Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which reveals details that are difficult to see in the individual images alone.
Webb’s observations capture Cartwheel in a very transitory stage. The form that the Cartwheel Galaxy will eventually take, given these two competing forces, is still a mystery. However, this snapshot provides perspective on what happened to the galaxy in the past and what it will do in the future.
Credit:ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, N. Bartmann, M. Zamani
Music: tonelabs - Happy Hubble (tonelabs.com)
About the Video
| Id: | weic2211c | |
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| Release date: | 2 August 2022, 16:00 | |
| Related releases: | weic2211 | |
| Duration: | 01 m 00 s | |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps | |
