The two galaxies are inching closer together before they merge, a process that will take millions of years.
NASA’s space telescopes have captured a tale of cosmic horror in the making, two galaxies slowly creeping on each other before violently devouring one another in a cannibalistic merger.of a pair of spiral galaxies staring out from the darkness of space, appearing as a pair of murderous eyes soaked in blood.
The blood-like hue of the image is owed to a combination of mid-infrared light from Webb with visible and ultraviolet light from Hubble, according to NASA. The bright red, veiny streaks in the image is where material from the two galaxies may have slammed together during their first pass of one another.
It took millions of years for the galaxies to make a first pass at each other, and it will take millions more for them to merge. Over that time, the galaxies will repeatedly swing by one another. Although we can’t be there to see it, the image helps us predict how the spiral galaxies may end up, and it’s not pretty.
The fittingly nicknamed Dark Wolf Nebula is located around 5,300 light years away from Earth, and stretches across an area equivalent to four full Moons in the sky, according to. Dark nebulae are scary stuff, massive, cold clouds of cosmic dust that obscure the light of stars behind them, and do not emit any visible light of their own.
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