A Tour of IC 2163 and NGC 2207

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)