Highly distorted galaxies by JWST

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.

Full image

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

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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3y

The bottom right one almost looks like a Firefox logo!

Elgordofordo86@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I like that name.

Gush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y

Lol