In 1941, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky discovered a galaxy 150,000 light-years across. Seeing this more chaotic structure as one of the mysteries to be explained, Zwicky ventured into the galaxy. The Cartwheel System gave his name.

cartwheel systemIt is about 500 million light-years from our planet. The name of this interesting celestial body comes from its shape resembling the wheel of a chariot, which was born from the collision of two spiral galaxies. In fact, there is also a small galaxy that is part of the system, but that galaxy is not included in these images.

The veil of secrecy on the Car Wheel Galaxy is lifted

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When two and a half giant galaxies collide, they burst into space. material is released, and the resulting galaxy is also undergoing radical structural changes. Until now, we couldn’t get much information about this galaxy because our powers of observation were more limited.

What we knew was that there was a small, solid spiral galaxy in the center and a second layer around it, seen from colorful branches. Therefore, the galaxy was described as a ring galaxy.

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from the same galaxy two different pictures shared. The reason for this is that the images were taken with two different instruments. from NIRCam While the incoming image mainly consists of blue, orange and yellow colors, MIRIA The imaging tool, called infrared spectrum, on the other hand, created a red weighted image.

The left part of the above image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and the right part was taken with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the celestial body is still in the transition phase. According to scientists, the current state of the structure, which was formed by the combination of separate spiral galaxies, tells us: ‘Car Wheel Galaxy’It also provides information about the past and future of the country.