A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our Milky Way, offering new clues on star formation as well as galactic structure and evolution.
Both powerful observatories collaborated to produce the wonderful image! (Photo : ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team; ESA/Hubble & NASA, R.
This photograph shows one of the biggest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. (Photo : ESO/PHANGS) This photograph shows one of the biggest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the spiral galaxy NGC 4303, often referred to as Messier 61.
Just to be clear, this spiral galaxy is not poisonous despite it resembling a snake. Thanks to the Chile-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers are able to image the NGC 1087, which resembles a curled sleeping snake.