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Highly distorted galaxies by JWST (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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