The James Webb space telescope captured a powerful fusion of galaxies, which began about 700 million years ago and caused a huge surge of star formation.
According to CNN, the telescope observed the merger of the galaxies – ARP 220, using the camera of the near infrared range (NIRCAM) and the average infrared range (MIRI).
ARP 220 are two spiral galaxies in the process of merger, and they shine most in the infrared light, which makes them an ideal target for Webb. This is an ultra-bright infrared with a luminosity of more than a trillion of sunshine.
For comparison, our Galaxy Milky Way has a much more modest luminosity of about ten billion suns.
located at a distance of 250 million light years in the constellation of the snake, ARP 220 is the 220th object in the atlas of Beiular Galaxies of Halton Arp. This is the nearest ULIRG and the brightest of the three closest mergers to the ground.
The collision of two spiral galaxies began about 700 million years ago. This caused a huge explosion explosion.
About 200 huge star clusters are in a dense dusty region with a diameter of about 5,000 light years. The amount of gas in this tiny region is equal to the entire gas throughout the Galaxy Milky Way.