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Gush@lemmy.ml to Space, the final frontier@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Highly distorted galaxies by JWST

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Highly distorted galaxies by JWST

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    Gravitational lensing ftw

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    This is El Gordo, a NIRCam medium deep field of a galaxy cluster contains hundreds of galaxies that existed when the universe was 6.2 billion years old.

    The reddish distorted “fish-hook” like galaxy, called El Anzuelo, is a far galaxy, which its light took 10.6 billion years to reach us. Its distinctive red color is due to a combination of reddening from dust within the galaxy itself and cosmological redshift due to its extreme distance.

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    Raw B&W images of El Gordo (El Anzuelo is on the top, a bit to the right)

    Comparison with Hubble’s image

    NASA press release

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