The James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, ocated around 500 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sculptor.
As the outer ring expands it runs into gas, sparking the formation of new stars. The Hubble telescope had previously captured images of the rare ring galaxy, which is believed to have been a spiral galaxy like our own Milky Way before it was hit by a smaller intruder galaxy. But the Webb telescope, which launched in December 2021 and revealed its first images to global fanfare last month, has a far greater reach.
