What Happens When Galaxies Collide?

Galaxies collide to create new forms and shapes, like our own Milky Way and Andromeda four billion years in the future. The formation and evolution of galaxies will be studied in great detail by the James Webb Space Telescope. 

Production Details

All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA and STScI except: 

• Visualization of the reionization era courtesy of NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications 
• Webb telescope animation courtesy of NASA, SkyWorks Digital, Northrop Grumman, STScI 
• Hubble tuning fork courtesy of Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
• Time Evolution video courtesy of Illustris 
• Image of Anthracite courtesy of Siim Sepp (www.sandatlas.org) 

The science operations for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, developed in partnership with the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, are conducted by AURA’s Space Telescope Science Institute.

Many thanks to Greg Bacon, John Godfrey, Leah Hustak, Hussein Jirdeh, Jason Kalirai, Brandon Lawton, Alexandra Lockwood, Marc Lussier, Charlie McWade, Bonnie Meinke, Roy Renza, Leah Ramsay, Denise Smith, and Frank Summers.