On Monday, the European Space Agency has released a Planck satellite image. The image shows swirling waves of yellow, brown and blue getting mixed to form an abstract view of two dwarf galaxies.

The dark-brown patches are known as the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. The bigger one is located 160,000 light years from earth and the smaller is 200,000 light years away. As per the researchers, these dwarf galaxies are among the nearest ones of Milky Way.

The image is the perfect example of how interstellar dust interacts with the magnetic structure of our galaxy. As per the ESA, cosmic dust is the raw material for stars to form. One more interesting thing seen in the image is a dusty filament stretching between the two galaxies.

“The image shows how well this structure is aligned with the galaxy's magnetic field, which is represented as the texture of the image and was estimated from Planck's measurements”, said the ESA.

Both the galaxies have been named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan. His crew was the first to see the galaxies during their first trip across the world in the 16th century.

The ESA shared that the satellite detected the dust while it was surveying the sky to study the cosmic microwave background in detail.