‘Dancing’ dwarf galaxies spotted by James Webb Space Telescope

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has spied a pair of dwarf galaxies engaged in a cosy gravitational dance. These two galaxies are called NGC 4490 and NGC 4485, they’re located about 24 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs). (Picture: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo ()What is a dwarf galaxy? A dwarf galaxy is home to just a few billion stars – a number of them orbit lager galaxies, such as the Milky Way or the Andromeda Galaxy.