Saturday/ a galactic collision 🌌

The James Webb Space Telescope recorded new images of the Cartwheel galaxy.
This image is a composite made with two tools, the Near-Infrared Camera and the Mid-Infrared Instrument.
The Cartwheel Galaxy is 500 million lightyears away from us. It was created hundreds of millions of years ago when two galaxies collided.
[Image credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI]

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