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**Arp Bot** @ArpBot@mastodon.social · 1d

JWST NIRCam image of Arp 142, also known as NGC 2936 and NGC 2937, or the Penguin and the Egg.

In this wide view, we see the Penguin (laying on its back) and the Egg, and the foreground edge-on spiral PGC 1237172. There are also a large number of distant galaxies, some seen as tiny spirals and ellipticals, and many appearing as dots.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Source: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2024/124/01J06XYGEDEE86D1H9N5EJ9EG0

$Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, take up less than a third of the frame. At the top is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg. Its center is brighter and whiter. There are six diffraction spikes atop its gauzy blue layers. At the center is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin. In this view it is resting on its back, facing up. Its beak-like region points toward and above the Egg. Where the eye would be is a small, opaque yellow spiral. The Penguin’s distorted arms and thin red dust lanes from the bird’s beak, back, and tail. The tail is wide and layered, like a beta fish’s tail. A semi-transparent blue hue traces the Penguin and extends from the galaxy, creating an upside-down U over top of both galaxies. At bottom center-right is another galaxy seen from the side, pointing at an angle. It is largely light blue. Its length appears approximately as long as the Egg’s height. There are several foreground stars with large, bright blue diffraction spikes. The wide black background is filled with tiny, extremely distant galaxies.$

#ArpGalaxy #Galaxy #Space

**Claude Trudel** @cltr@jasette.facil.services · 1d

**scinexx - das wissensmagazin** @scinexx@nrw.social · 2d

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**Jason William Karpf** @Jason_W_Karpf@mastodon.social · 2d

**yuval** @yuvharpaz@nerdculture.de · 2d

yuval @yuvharpaz@nerdculture.de

Galaxy 3C 305 by #JWST, MIRI. There ought to be a jet-cloud interaction below the core, but I can't see it.

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**Richard** @waystation@sunny.garden · 4d

**Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft)** @AstroHawk@spacey.space · 4d

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**Mark McCaughrean** @markmccaughrean@mastodon.social · 4d

Mark McCaughrean @markmccaughrean@mastodon.social

Since this morning, the NASA/ESA/CSA #JWST has been taking near-IR images of Sharpless 305, a star-forming region in the outer reaches of the Milky Way

Below is an image taken with the ESO VLT many years ago in poor weather – the JWST images should be better

When finished in a couple of hours, that'll be the last of my Guaranteed Time Observations, granted when I was selected as a member of the JWST Science Working Group in 2002

It has been a privilege

A picture of space showing a cluster of stars in the top-right corner surrounded by nebulosity, and a deeply-embedded protostar in the lower-left corner, also with nebulosity. The image has browns and purples against a black background, with horizontal streaks due to cloud and bright sources.

#SpaceScience #Astronomy

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