JWST Cartwheel Galaxy (Chris Ashford)

JWST Cartwheel Galaxy

It rained all day today here in Texas, so I decided to download and process JWST image data for the Cartwheel Galaxy from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST). A perfect rainy day activity

I was not keen on the (IMO) heavily saturated image that's on wikipedia, so wanted to do something a little different

The Cartwheel Galaxy is an unusual lenticular galaxy whose structure is a result of a head-on collision with another galaxy. I found a short article on the Astronomy.com website if you would like to read about it.

[Attribution Statement: This image uses NIRCAM and MIRI images made by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The data were obtained from the Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-03127 for JWST.]

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