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Merging Galaxy Pair IIZw096
Explanation: Bright at infrared wavelengths, this merging galaxy pair is some 500 million light-years away toward the constellation Delphinus. The cosmic mashup is seen against a background of even more distant galaxies, and occasional spiky foreground stars. But the galaxy merger itself spans about 100,000 light-years in this deep James Webb Space Telescope image . The image data is from Webb's Near-InfraRed Camera ( NIRCam ) and Mid-InfraRed Instrument ( MIRI ). Their combined, sharp infrared view follows galactic scale restructuring in the dusty merger's wild jumble of intense star forming regions and distorted spiral arms
| Date | December 2, 2022 |
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| Credit | Image Credit: ESA/Webb , NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans |
| Authors & editors: | Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP) |
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ASD at NASA / GSFC, NASA Science Activation & Michigan Tech. U. |