Jamie Carter is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor based in Cardiff, U.K. He is the author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners and lectures on astronomy and the natural world. Jamie regularly writes for Space.com, TechRadar.com, Forbes Science, BBC Wildlife magazine and Scientific American, and many others. He edits WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com.
What it is: The Whirlpool Galaxy , a classic"grand design" spiral galaxy that measures 77,000 light-years from one side to the other.
Why it's so special: A completely fresh take on a classic and much-photographed deep sky object, this brand new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows star clusters forming in the Whirlpool Galaxy for the first time. The stunning image — which combines infrared light captured for the first time by JWST’s Near-InfraRed Camera and Mid-InfraRed Instrument — is the result of observations by a project called Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers . It's an attempt to understand something called stellar feedback — the energy stars inject into their surroundings as they form, thus helping to create more stars.
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