NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured an interesting image of two galaxies colliding, or more specifically an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy collectively known as Arp 107.
This collision isn’t as devastating as you may think, as it simply compresses gas and improves the conditions needed for more stars to form. They also disperse a lot of gas, potentially depriving new stars of the material they need to form. Arp 107 is located approximately 465 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Leo Minor.
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Webb has captured these galaxies in the process of merging, which will take hundreds of millions of years. As the two galaxies rebuild after the chaos of their collision, Arp 107 may lose its smile, but it will inevitably turn into something just as interesting for future astronomers to study,” said the NASA Webb Mission Team.
