A distant swirling galaxy imaged by the powerful space telescope may look serene but it has a violent past.
When galaxies collide, most stellar bodies escape the violent collisions unscathed, unlike the gas and dust content of those galaxies. That's because of large voids between stars. But it isn’t the case for all the stars in those galaxies. Visible in the JWST image of NGC 3256 are threads of stars that were wrenched free of their home galaxies as a result of gravitational interactions between the colliding galaxies giving rise to incredible tidal forces.
The stunning image of this galaxy was created by the JWST using data from its Near Infrared Camera and its Mid-InfraRed Instrument . Visualizing NGC 3256 in this way demonstrates the usefulness of the JWST, the most powerful telescope ever placed into orbit around Earth, in understanding the growth of galaxies and the evolution of the universe.
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