In this photo provided by NASA and the Space Telescope 国产诱惑福利 Institute, two interacting galaxies are captured by the Webb Space Telescope in the infrared. Scientists say the neighboring galaxies, nicknamed Penguin, right, and the Egg, left, have been tangled up for tens of millions of years. (NASA and Space Telescope 国产诱惑福利 Institute via AP)
In this photo provided by NASA and the Space Telescope 国产诱惑福利 Institute, two interacting galaxies are captured by the Webb Space Telescope in the infrared. Scientists say the neighboring galaxies, nicknamed Penguin, right, and the Egg, left, have been tangled up for tens of millions of years. (NASA and Space Telescope 国产诱惑福利 Institute via AP)
In this photo provided by NASA and the Space Telescope 国产诱惑福利 Institute, two interacting galaxies are captured by the Webb Space Telescope in the infrared. Scientists say the neighboring galaxies, nicknamed Penguin, right, and the Egg, left, have been tangled up for tens of millions of years. (NASA and Space Telescope 国产诱惑福利 Institute via AP)
In this photo provided by NASA and the Space Telescope 国产诱惑福利 Institute, two interacting galaxies are captured by the Webb Space Telescope in the infrared. Scientists say the neighboring galaxies, nicknamed Penguin, right, and the Egg, left, have been tangled up for tens of millions of years. (NASA and Space Telescope 国产诱惑福利 Institute via AP)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) 鈥 The Webb Space Telescope has captured a pair of intertwined galaxies glowing in the infrared.
The observatory photographed the two galaxies 326 million light-years away, surrounded by a blue haze of stars and gas. A light-year is 5.8 trillion miles.
The pictures, released Friday, marks the second anniversary of .
The neighboring galaxies, nicknamed Penguin and the Egg, have been tangled up for tens of millions of years, according to NASA. They'll eventually merge into a single galaxy. The same interaction will happen to our own Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy in 4 billion years, the space agency said.
Considered the successor to the aging Hubble Space Telescope, Webb is the biggest and most powerful astronomical observatory ever launched. It rocketed away in 2021 and underwent six months of commissioning, before its first official images were released in July 2022.
It's positioned 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
鈥淚n just two years, Webb has transformed our view of the universe,鈥 NASA鈥檚 Mark Clampin said in a statement.
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