NASA’s space telescopes James Webb and Hubble captured a story of cosmic horror in which two galaxies slowly inched towards each other and then swallowed each other in a wild merger.
The Webb and Hubble space telescopes have joined forces to capture the highest-resolution image of a double spiral galaxy that looks like blood-soaked killer eyes peering out from the darkness of space. And at this stage, the following image emerged.
The collision of the two galaxies will take millions of years, but during this time they will resemble a pair of curious eyes looking at the earth from the depths of space. By now the galaxy’s arms have grazed each other, the smaller galaxy on the left being cataloged as IC 2163, while its larger counterpart has moved behind the spiral galaxy NGC 2207 on the right.
Millions of years later, when the centers of these two galaxies approach each other, things will become very chaotic, their gravitational forces will disrupt the balance of the solar systems, and exploding stars will turn everything into hell.
Galaxy collision is a rare sight
According to NASA, the image’s blood-like hue is caused by a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb and visible and ultraviolet light from Hubble. The bright red, veined lines in the image are where two galaxies may have collided with each other during their first pass.
Each year, galaxies produce the equivalent of two dozen Sun-sized stars, while the Milky Way galaxy is estimated to produce only two or three Sun-like stars per year. Eye-shaped galaxies have produced seven known supernovae in the last few decades, while the Milky Way hosts an average of one supernova every 50 years.
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