A Tour of IC 2163 and NGC 2207 @NASAWebbTelescope
A Tour of IC 2163 and NGC 2207  @NASAWebbTelescope
Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This video tours a pair of spiral galaxies, IC 2163 at left and NGC 2207 at right, which reside 114 million light-years from Earth.

The journey begins and ends on a new image that combines mid-infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes, and includes brief fades to Webb’s mid-infrared image and Hubble’s visible and ultraviolet light image.

Watch as these spellbinding observations are pulled apart, and then presented again as a combined observation.

The tour features star formation in chilling detail, blood-red shock fronts, and traces of ancient supernova explosions that “echo” through the cosmic landscape.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Danielle Kirshenblat (STScI)
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A Tour of IC 2163 and NGC 2207

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