Image from NASA.
That is the Cartwheel Galaxy. It is 500 million light years away.
It's a composite from the JWST's two infrared cameras. The red light is from MIRI and the blue from NIRCam. (Most of these kinds of astronomical images are false color).
Those thin spokes are dust. Lots and lots of dust. This galaxy formed in a merger, so...
The data associated with this image will tell us more about how stars form.
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