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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2022 December 2   
      
                            Merging Galaxy Pair IIZw096   
              Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. Evans   
      
      Explanation: Bright at infrared wavelengths, this merging galaxy pair   
      is some 500 million light-years away toward the constellation   
      Delphinus. The cosmic mashup is seen against a background of even more   
      distant galaxies, and occasional spiky foreground stars. But the galaxy   
      merger itself spans about 100,000 light-years in this deep James Webb   
      Space Telescope image. The image data is from Webb's Near-InfraRed   
      Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). Their combined,   
      sharp infrared view follows galactic scale restructuring in the dusty   
      merger's wild jumble of intense star forming regions and distorted   
      spiral arms   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: Stereo Saturday   
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