This picture from James Webb Space Telescope shows a pair of mutually influential galaxies, namely IC 1623. It is located in the constellation of the Constellation of the Celestialis, about 270 million light-years away from the Earth. Two galaxies in IC 1623 plunged head-on into each other during a process known as galaxy merger. Their collision ignited the craze for the formation of fanatical stars. This is called a star burst, which is creating new stars at a speed of more than Milky Way 20 times.
interacting galaxy IC 1623
Weber Merged galaxy IC 1623 A and B in this month's picture are juxtaposed with new images of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. In Weber MIRI images, bright cores, heated gas and dust, and young star-forming regions are visible. Hubble and Weber's NIRCAM images show the twisted spiral arms of the galaxy, while MIRI shows the faint ghostly glow of interstellar dust.
This interactive galaxy system is particularly bright at infrared wavelengths, making it an ideal test site for NASA/ESA/CSA Weber to study the capabilities of luminescent galaxies. A team of astronomers took IC 1623 using Weber’s three cutting-edge scientific instruments. MIRI, NIRSpec and NIRCam. In this way, they provide a vast amount of data that enables the entire astronomical community to fully explore how Weber’s unprecedented capabilities will help unravel the complex interactions in the galactic ecosystem. These observations are also accompanied by data from other observatories, including NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and will help set up a stage for future observation of the Milky Way with Weber. The merger of the two galaxies
has long attracted the attention of astronomers. In fact, Hubble and other space telescopes have imaged it before. The ongoing, extreme astral bursts caused strong infrared emissions, and the merged galaxy is likely to be forming an supermassive black hole . A thick dust band blocks telescopes like Hubble’s observation of these valuable insights. However, Weber's infrared sensitivity and its impressive resolution at these wavelengths allow it to see through the dust and produces a spectacular image at the top of this article, which is a combination of MIRI and NIRCam images.
The luminous core of the Milky Way merged was so bright and highly compact that Weber's diffraction spike appeared on the top of the Milky Way in this picture. These octagonal, snowflake-like diffraction peaks are generated by the interaction between starlight and the physical structure of the telescope. The mass of the spike observed by Weber is particularly evident in images containing bright stars, such as Weber's first deep field image.
