Jul 15, 2024, 07:22 AM IST
Two interacting galaxies known as Arp 142 observed in near- and mid-infrared light.
Amid a backdrop of galaxies, a star shines brightly with a white-yellow light, slightly left of center. The star has eight long spikes, which are imaging artifacts called diffraction spikes.
A colorful, hazy nebula. Shades of green and blue dominate the top-left corner, with orange, red and dark waves of gas taking up the bottom and right sides.
A growing protostar embedded within a molecular cloud. The center of the image shows a bright, red region, where the protostar resides, with a thin, gray lane cutting through it horizontally, which is the protostar’s accretion disk.
Thousands of stars and vast regions of dust and gas are seen in this deep space image. At the center of the image is a central star cluster
The galaxy’s arms spiral outward from the core, filling the image with blue-tinged gas and dust. There are bright blue dots studded throughout these spiral arms; these are young blue-white giant stars.
A dreamlike stellar landscape, with a pinkish arc of gas standing out against dark blue swirls.
This information is not DNA's opinion but obtained from media reports