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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://astrodon.social/users/kellylepo/statuses/112776566019672643">Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 11:47:12 JST</a><a href="https://astrodon.social/@kellylepo" title="kellylepo@astrodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/28639-48-20221116180105.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Kelly Lepo" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Kelly Lepo</a></section><article><p>To celebrate its 2nd year of science, <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/JWST" rel="tag">#JWST</a> took this image of Arp 142, a pair of interacting galaxies sometimes called the Penguin and the Egg 🐧🥚.</p><p>The Penguin is a spiral galaxy whose shape has been distorted by the gravity of the elliptical Egg galaxy. The two are about 100,000 light-years apart and completed a close pass between 25 and 75 million years ago. They will merge into one galaxy hundreds of millions of years from now.<br>1/</p><p><a href="https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-124" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-124</a><br><a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/space" rel="tag">#space</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/astronomy" rel="tag">#astronomy</a> <a href="https://astrodon.social/tags/Astrodon" rel="tag">#Astrodon</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/3371717#notice-6635607">In conversation</a><time datetime="2024-07-14T11:47:12+09:00" title="Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 11:47:12 JST">about 4 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://astrodon.social/@kellylepo/112776566019672643" rel="external" title="Sent from astrodon.social via ActivityPub">astrodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://astrodon.social/@kellylepo/112776566019672643">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/2904251">Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, observed in near- and mid-infrared light. At left is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg. Its center is the brighter and whiter. There are six diffraction spikes atop its gauzy blue layers. At right is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin. 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 form 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 top right is another galaxy seen from the side, pointing roughly at a 45-degree angle. It is largely light blue. Its length appears approximately as long as the Egg’s height. One foreground star with large, bright blue diffraction spikes appears over top of the galaxy and another near it. The entire black background is filled with tiny, extremely distant galaxies.</a></label><br><a href="https://cdn.masto.host/astrodonsocial/media_attachments/files/112/776/499/719/167/494/original/b4d6b889edf4f175.jpg" rel="external">https://cdn.masto.host/astrodonsocial/media_attachments/files/112/776/499/719/167/494/original/b4d6b889edf4f175.jpg</a></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jul-2024 11:47:12 JST Kelly Lepo
To celebrate its 2nd year of science, #JWST took this image of Arp 142, a pair of interacting galaxies sometimes called the Penguin and the Egg 🐧🥚.
The Penguin is a spiral galaxy whose shape has been distorted by the gravity of the elliptical Egg galaxy. The two are about 100,000 light-years apart and completed a close pass between 25 and 75 million years ago. They will merge into one galaxy hundreds of millions of years from now.
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1. Arp 142, two interacting galaxies, observed in near- and mid-infrared light. At left is NGC 2937, nicknamed the Egg. Its center is the brighter and whiter. There are six diffraction spikes atop its gauzy blue layers. At right is NGC 2936, nicknamed the Penguin. 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 form 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 top right is another galaxy seen from the side, pointing roughly at a 45-degree angle. It is largely light blue. Its length appears approximately as long as the Egg’s height. One foreground star with large, bright blue diffraction spikes appears over top of the galaxy and another near it. The entire black background is filled with tiny, extremely distant galaxies.
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