Shine bright like a ULIRG 💎⁣ ⁣ With the light of a trillion suns, an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) shines in the latest NASAWebb image. In comparison, our Milky Way has a much more modest light of about 10 billion suns. Located 250 million light-years away, this target is actually the result of two spiral galaxies colliding.⁣ ⁣ The collision of the two spiral galaxies began about 700 million years ago. It sparked an enormous burst of star formation. About 200 huge star clusters reside in a packed, dusty region about 5,000 light-years across (only 5% of the Milky Way’s diameter), yet, the amount of gas in this tiny region is equal to all of the gas in the entire Milky Way galaxy.⁣ ⁣ Image description: A black, deep space image is dominated by a large central object. This object resembles a snowflake-like feature with a bright white core and 8 pinkish orange spikes. It is surrounded by additional wisps of pinkish orange and blue gas. In reality, this “snowflake” is actually two...