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This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to the interacting galaxies known as Arp 142.

The distorted spiral galaxy at the centre, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy at the left, the Egg, are locked in an active embrace. A new near- and mid-infrared image from the James Webb Space Telescope, taken to mark its second year of science, shows that their interaction is marked by a faint upside-down U-shaped blue glow.

The pair, known jointly as Arp 142, made their first pass between 25 and 75 million years ago ā€” causing ā€˜fireworksā€™, or new star formation, in the Penguin. In the most extreme cases, mergers can cause galaxies to form thousands of new stars per year for a few million years. For the Penguin, research has shown that about 100 to 200 stars have formed per year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy (which is not interacting with a galaxy of the same size) forms roughly six to seven new stars per year.

Arp 142 lies 326 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)

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12 Comments

  1. "Itā€™s not 300 Millions of light-yearsā€”no telescope, no matter how powerful, can see that far. Enough with these exaggerated numbers! Letā€™s say the James Webb telescope saw something a few thousand light-years away. Now that makes more sense."

  2. āœ… sooo… much evidence of Intelligence design and structure _[only the most fooled hearty and blind (scientist)] ..can possibly think for even one moment all of this came about as a result of some uncaused cosmic explosion _so called 'big bang' is simply a most ridiculous theory ā‰ļøā—

    Psalm 19:1-4 KJV

    [1] The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament sheweth his handywork. [2] Day unto day uttereth speech, And night unto night sheweth knowledge. [3] There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard. [4] Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world.

  3. Please donā€™t misunderstand me I am blown away that human technology has both far enough to capture something like this is marvellous nonetheless one must have a lot of creativity and freedom of interpretation to see a penguin somewhere in that picture

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