{"id":209478,"date":"2025-03-22T03:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T08:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nasas-webb-provides-another-look-into-galactic-collisions"},"modified":"2025-03-22T03:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T08:09:43","slug":"nasas-webb-provides-another-look-into-galactic-collisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/nasas-webb-provides-another-look-into-galactic-collisions","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-webb-provides-another-look-into-galactic-collisions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe looks a little different in mid-infrared light, a longer wavelength captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t be distracted by distant stars and galaxies that look like multi-colored candies! Instead draw your attention to the \u201cmessy\u201d blue \u201cscoop.\u201d This is one of two galaxies in Arp 107. The blue orb to its left is interreacting with it, making up its other \u201chalf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s remarkable about this image is that the bright diffraction spikes in the larger galaxy on the right are from its active supermassive black hole.<\/p>\n<p>See a \u201cbridge\u201d that connects the pair in Webb\u2019s near-infrared light observations.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, shines brightly in high-resolution infrared light. A collision, which occurred hundreds of millions ago, created a tenuous bridge of gas and dust that connects the two galaxies, and started a new wave of star formation that NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope captures clearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe looks a little different in mid-infrared light, a longer wavelength captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. Don\u2019t be distracted by distant stars and galaxies that look like multi-colored candies! Instead draw your attention to the \u201cmessy\u201d blue \u201cscoop.\u201d This is one of two galaxies in Arp 107. The blue orb to its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}