NASA has released a photo of a penguin-shaped galaxy
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured galaxies NGC 2936 and NGC 2937 in the shape of a penguin with an egg, the telescope’s official X social media account said.
“Penguins make great parents even in space. <…> A new photo from Webb shows two galaxies, the Penguin (NGC 2936) and the Egg (NGC 2937). <…> They are in a cosmic embrace, bound by a bluish haze of stars and gases,” the report said.
The agency added that the “penguin” and the “egg” have been converging for tens of millions of years and will eventually merge into a single galaxy. The current distance between NGC 2936 and NGC 2937 is about 25 times smaller than the distance between the Milky Way and our nearest galaxy.
The publication marks the second anniversary of the first photos taken by the James Webb. It is the largest and most powerful space telescope launched by mankind. It is capable of detecting relatively cold planetary bodies located at distances of up to 100 astronomical units from the parent star, as well as obtaining spectral lines of these planets. No other telescope has been able to do this so far.
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