"James Webb" showed the collision of galaxies. It shines brighter than a trillion suns
Miscellaneous / / April 20, 2023
Of the two galaxies, one, brighter, is born.
The galaxy is constantly colliding and merging. Even our Milky Way will one day merge with Andromeda (although we will not find this anymore). Despite the massive destruction, the sight is amazing. A bright example in every sense showed James Webb telescope.
Pictured is Arp 220, a new infrared ultraluminous galaxy resulting from the collision of two spiral galaxies. The process began about 700 million years ago and continues to this day. Now its luminosity exceeds the luminosity of the Sun by more than a trillion times (that's a thousand billion). For comparison: the luminosity of the Milky Way corresponds to about 10 billion solar.
Arp 220 is about 250 million light-years from Earth. The telescope image shows dense filaments of gas, including a relatively small 5,000 light-year region containing about 200 star clusters. There is about as much gas in this region alone as there is in our entire galaxy. Earlier studies have found remnants of over a hundred supernovae there, all in a small zone about 500 light-years across.
Scientists believe that further study of Arp 220 will allow them to learn more about the evolution of galaxies.
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