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? We may not know the answer now. However, humans can compare the universe to a pool of lake water, and many beautiful ripples of different shapes can appear on the surface of the lake water, such as wheel galaxy .
Wheel Galaxy
On August 2, 2022, NASA captured the Wheel Galaxy 5, which is 500 million light years away from the Earth through the James Weber Space Telescope .
Through the new images of dazzling celestial bodies, people saw from high-definition digital imaging that there was also the colored circle that was constantly rotating in the distant horizon.
They provide humans with a new perspective to study the universe. So where is the beauty of the wheel galaxy? How is it different from the Milky Way galaxy? How did this come about and what kind of surprises will it bring to mankind in the future?
through Hubble classification, we found that galaxies are mainly divided into three major categories.
One is an elliptical galaxy, the other is spiral galaxy , and the remaining one is irregular galaxy . Among them, the spiral galaxy is also called the spiral galaxy, which is the most numerous in the universe that humans have observed so far.
is named because its shape is relatively vortex-like. galaxies like
are near their symmetrical planes. Because they contain a large amount of diffuse matter, their shape looks like a vortex from the front of the observation. But if humans observe from its side, they will find that this type of galaxy has a shuttle-shaped shape again.
I believe everyone is familiar with spiral galaxies because its spiral arms are born from both ends of the rod, so more people call it a rod spiral galaxy.
In this, nebula like Andromeda and Triangle are collectively called vortex galaxies. So, what is the relationship between spiral galaxy and wheel galaxy?
According to long-term research by scientists, there are actually some spiral galaxies in the sky that are originally shaped like the Milky Way , and they are doing their own work quietly.
But they are so beautiful, and they also present a blue and purple halo. Perhaps because of the gravity of surrounding matter, they collided with another large galaxy, which formed a wheel-shaped shape.
From this introduction, it is not difficult to find that the wheel galaxy is not the most primitive galaxy after the birth of the universe explosion. Scientists believe it was hit by a smaller galaxy 200 million years ago.
The relatively small galaxy became a disk at the center of the wheel galaxy after impact. However, due to its larger mass and affected by its central gravity, the small galaxy will slowly distort the core of the wheel galaxy, and under a series of physical actions, it will produce a powerful shock wave .
This energy begins to diverge from the center point to the periphery of the wheel galaxy, and finally causes the outer layer of the galaxy to be pressed, and some new stars will be born around it.
Beautiful wonder
Have you ever seen beautiful galaxies like wheels? How exactly did it come about? Is there a unique way in the universe?
Judging from the various photos of the beautiful wonders of the wheel galaxy captured by the Weber Space Telescope , although the wheel galaxy is very far away from the earth, it emits colorful light all over its body, which looks dreamy and ethereal. It looks like a running wheel.
In fact, according to the information reported by Associated Press, the wheel galaxy discovered in 2022 is a lens-shaped ring galaxy located in Yufu . It is 500 million light years away from the earth and has a diameter of fifteen light years. The number of surrounding stars is distributed relatively, so its brightness is relatively high.
So long ago, a large number of astronomers and scientists wanted to see the glory of the wheel galaxy.But because the two are 500 million light-years apart, there is a lot of dust distributed in this range. It is precisely because of their existence that people have blocked people from using technology to explore the beauty of the wheel galaxy.
Fortunately, the Weber Space Telescope can now pass through infrared detection capabilities to block the large amount of hot dust from the wheels' galaxy's vision, promptly sending back the real pictures of this beautiful galaxy to people.
According to scientists, during the formation of the wheel galaxy, its core point will diffuse outwards two circles, causing the core to emit a large amount of self-heating dust through physical action.
The brightest part of its planetary ring is still composed of huge stars. If people look at the picture, this wheel galaxy has colorful light all over its body, but this is not the most surprising thing.
Because scientists believe that the colorful light emitted by its body is a beautiful halo emitted from the outer ring of the spokes through the refractive principle of light.
really surprises that the outer ring of the colored spokes of the wheel galaxy is still in a state of constant expansion.
Although the galaxy discovered so far has expanded in the universe for at least 440 million years, since it is full of various energy and has the conditions to nurture new stars, its outer ring will also trigger the formation of other stars after it hits other gases in the universe.
More surprises
Wheel galaxy has more places to surprise scientists in addition to its beautiful appearance.
For example, after long-term research, NASA has found that in addition to the matter and energy that nurtures new stars, its most central part, like the Milky Way, seems to have the phenomenon of supermassive black hole .
So scientists continued to detect whether the wheel galaxy contains potential conditions that constitute supermassive black holes through the Weber telescope.
However, unexpectedly, people once again discovered through detection that some of the material rich in the wheel galaxy is similar to the dust of the earth. These include hydrocarbon and chemical substances contained in a large amount of earth's dust.
In this way, although this beautiful galaxy is very far away from the earth, it brings endless surprises to people. Perhaps through long-term observations in the future, there will be more surprises waiting for us to hunt for treasure one by one.
But at this time you may be curious, is the Wheel Galaxy only the one observed by the Weber Space Telescope in 2022?
scientists introduced: Wheel galaxies are actually not rare in the universe, and this type of galaxy is the extreme type of spiral galaxies.
Only when the energy of the nucleus of the two-pole jet galaxy does not change particularly significantly, the angle between the magnetic axis and the rotation axis between the nucleus of each galaxy is close to or equal to π/half, the wheel galaxy will be born.
It can be seen that anywhere in the universe, the wheel galaxy will still be widely distributed as long as conditions allow.
The universe has left people with endless beauty. I believe that in the future, scientists will also discover more beautiful and touching other astronomical landscapes than wheel galaxies through observation.
