This stunning image shows NGC 2207 and IC 2163, two spiral galaxies currently interacting and colliding with each other. The gravity between them is twisting their spiral arms, triggering intense star formation and revealing massive clouds of dust. This image combines James Webb Space Telescope (infrared) data with Chandra X-ray Observatory data, highlighting both star-forming regions and energetic X-ray sources.
📸 Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA – James Webb Space Telescope
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What’s the distance from Earth?
what an incredible image, for some reason makes me wonder if we’ll see better images of black holes soon
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Andromeda to Milky Way: “This could be us but you playing.”
This is what happens when two cosmic ponds collide, the ripples make some fancy patterns.
I’m worried for the aliens living in one of those planets
Looks like they are spinning in different directions. Like they are trying to escape each other but can’t. I’ll call it cosmic love.
Anyone else?
^LET ^EM ^RIP^!
This kind of thing seems unfathomable to my tiny human brain.
James Webb really should let them go
So gorgeous!!! You can see the satellites they are carrying with them too.
NOW THAT IS STUNNING. I can’t wait for more!
The larger, heavier beyblade typically wins.
It is said that due to the extreme vastness of space that when the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies merge, there is an extreme unlikelihood that any of the stars will collide during that time. While there are more than 100 billion stars in each galaxy, there is, on average, 47 trillion kilometers in between each star.
This image probably happened millions of years ago.
Look for NGC 4676. AKA The Mice, are also two colliding galaxies.
[There are stars exploding…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuIeJzn8wiA)
this is amazing, would it be the first time we would actively be looking at star formations happening in front of us? and technically this happened x years ago right (x being the distance in light years)
high-res source? please…
Probably appear in that same position for the rest of humanity
In the state of this image, do you reckon the galaxies are just merging peacefully with minimal collisions? Or have there been a billion smaller collisions already?
I can’t balance the tremendous amount of stuff with the obvious fact that their mostly empty space on the edges…
Time scale of tens of millions of years for this collision to happen and the light we are seeing is millions of years ago as well so current day looks nothing at all like this, of course we cannot see current day for another million years.
Which galaxy was at fault?
Oh, to see the night sky on a planet in one of these galaxies would truly be incredible!
Looks really cool, but who is James? A new astronaut I guess?
Here I was last night trying to get my son’s telescope he got from santa to not move from the moon after I turn the locking knob…
and by the time we get milkdromeda Elder scrolls 6 will still not be out
Name suggestion: The frozen waltz
Honest question: What do the planets involved in this experience?
do you think that some planets or stars actually crash into each other, or are all displaced by gravitational effects? Id assume there are collisions
The Trillion-Body Problem. The lifeforms there are freaking out.
any updates how is progressing?… i check the feed every 15 min but looks the same…
How would the dark matter distribution look like ?
dude, some privacy, please