Penguin and the Egg: NASA celebrates two years of James Webb telescope with dancing galaxies; Here are visuals
NASA) James Webb telescope, the US-based agency has released a stunning visual of dancing galaxies where the two formations are interacting with each other. The galaxies together are named 'Penguin and the Egg.'
«Their ongoing interaction was set in motion between 25 and 75 million years ago, when the Penguin and the Egg completed their first pass. They will go on to shimmy and sway, completing several additional loops before merging into a single galaxy hundreds of millions of years from now,» said the space agency in an official statement.
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Penguin and the Egg: Let's Dance!
Before their first approach, the Penguin held the shape of a spiral. Today, its galactic center gleams like an eye, its unwound arms now shaping a beak, head, backbone, and fanned-out tail.
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Like all spiral galaxies, the Penguin is still very rich in gas and dust. The galaxies’ “dance” gravitationally pulled on the Penguin’s thinner areas of gas and dust, causing them to crash in waves and form stars. Look for those areas in two places: what looks like a fish in its “beak” and the “feathers” in its “tail.”
When compared to the other galaxy, the Egg’s compact shape remained largely unchanged. As an elliptical galaxy, it is filled with aging stars, and has a lot less gas and dust that can be pulled away to form new stars. If both were spiral galaxies, each would end the first “twist” with new star formation and
