Global eye
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Into the Cartwheel Galaxy
This was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope using Webb’s primary imager, the Near-Infrared Camera, or NIRCam. It captures the chaos of the Cartwheel Galaxy, which lies around 500 million light years away, in unparalleled detail. The Catherine wheel shape of this galaxy is the result of a high-speed galactic collision that caused its rings to expand outwards like ripples on a pond.