I love JWST pics so much. I've got them all in a folder which rotate as my desktop background. Constantly wowed.
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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Is that a slow-motion galaxy orgy? Or is it perspective that makes them look close.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan's_Quintet
Four of the five galaxies in Stephan's Quintet form a physical association, a true galaxy group, Hickson Compact Group 92, and will likely merge with each other. Radio observations in the early 1970s revealed a filament of emission between the galaxies in the group. This same region is also detected in the faint glow of ionized atoms seen in the visible part of the spectrum as a green arc.
Space telescopes have provided new insight into the nature of the filament, which is now believed to be a shock-wave in the intergalactic gas, caused by one galaxy (NGC 7318B) falling into the center of the group at several million kilometres per hour.
It's an orgy.
same
Whoa