A beautiful Galactic EmbraceImage credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Webb; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare

This image shows two spiral galaxies that collided with each other millions of years ago in a beautiful galactic embrace.

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It combines mid-infrared observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (shown in white, gray, and red) with X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (shown in blue).

Far in the future—billions of years from now—the two galaxies will eventually merge into one.

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