File:Question Mark Galaxy (NIRCam) (2024-128).png
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English: The galaxy cluster MACS-J0417.5-1154 is so massive it is warping the fabric of space-time and distorting the appearance of galaxies behind it, an effect known as gravitational lensing. This natural phenomenon magnifies distant galaxies and can also make them appear in an image multiple times, as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope saw here. Two distant, interacting galaxies — a face-on spiral and a dusty red galaxy seen from the side — appear multiple times, tracing a familiar shape across the sky. Active star formation, and the face-on galaxy’s remarkably intact spiral shape, indicate that these galaxies’ interaction is just beginning.
See a side-by-side comparison of how the Hubble Space Telescope and Webb each viewed this same region of space: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2024/128/01J6CXQZWPPN3NHPJQYY4WZG1R NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Vicente Estrada-Carpenter (Saint Mary's University) |
| Date | 4 September 2024 (upload date) |
| Source | Question Mark Galaxy (NIRCam) |
| Author | Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Vicente Estrada-Carpenter (Saint Mary's University) |
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| Keywords | Gravitational Lensing; Galaxies; Galaxy Clusters; Distant Galaxies |
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This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA, ESA and CSA. NASA Webb material is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA/CSA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if source material from other organizations is in use. The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-03127. Copyright statement at webbtelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the esawebb.org site, use the {{ESA-Webb}} tag. |
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