'Grand design' spiral galaxy shows the power of JWST's sharp new infrared observations.
The James Webb Space Telescope has snapped a dramatic new image of a spiral galaxy that looks like a celestial seashell crafted from blue and pink gossamer filaments of gas.
"Webb's sharp vision has revealed delicate filaments of gas and dust in the grandiose spiral arms which wind outwards from the center of this image," European Space Agency representatives said in a statement ."A lack of gas in the nuclear region also provides an unobscured view of the nuclear star cluster at the galaxy's center."
The new image is part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies survey, a long-running survey of stars, star clusters and dust within 19 galaxies. The goals of PHANGS are to find star-forming regions in those galaxies, measure the masses and ages of star clusters, and learn more about the small grains of dust drifting in interstellar space.
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