A Star? Actually, This Is The Cores Of Two Colliding Galaxies Filled With Millions Of Stars!Collectively

A star? Actually, this is the cores of two colliding galaxies filled with millions of stars! Collectively called Arp 220, the galactic smashup ignited a tremendous burst of star birth. The combining galactic cores are each encircled by a rotating, star-forming ring that blasts out brilliant light. The James Webb Space Telescope captured the light of Arp 220, which shines in infrared with the brightness of more than a trillion suns. The light is so glaring that it creates diffraction spikes in Webb’s image—the starburst feature that dominates our view. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and Klaus Pontoppidan (STSCI); image processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI). ALT TEXT: A black, deep-space background is punctuated with more than a hundred randomly spaced red, white and orange galaxies in this astronomical image. These galaxies are various shapes and apparent sizes. Dominating the foreground is an object that at first appears to be a brilliant, 6-pointed, orange star surrounded by wisps of orange gas and bluish purple nebulosity. In reality, what seems to be a star is actually two colliding galaxies with merging cores. The brilliant light from the star-formation surrounding these cores creates diffraction spikes — the prominent starburst feature. Several tiny, whitish yellow regions appear almost dead center on this feature. On the outskirts of the merger are faint, grainy, nearly transparent areas that look like bluish purple clouds. Reddish orange streams and filaments appear across the foreground object.

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