Check out that glowing active galactic nucleus.
The spiral galaxy NGC 7469 imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope for the Great Observatories All-sky LIRGs Survey .
This image has captured new details within NGC 7469's AGN, including"very young star-forming clusters never seen before, as well as pockets of very warm, turbulent molecular gas, and direct evidence for the destruction of small dust grains within a few hundred light-years of the nucleus," according toIn this image, Webb has also captured ionized atomic gas emissions from the nucleus that are traveling at some 4 million mph .
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