The James Webb Space Telescope just gave a spiral galaxy 230 million light-years away a new sparkling glamor shot perfect enough for the Christmas tree.
While the galaxy has the rather un-glamorous name of NGC 7469, it's been a fascinating subject to study.
NGC 7469 is also pretty special. It has elegant, beautiful spiral arms that we can see along their full extent, thanks to a quirk of orientation: The flat of the galactic plane is facing us almost directly, giving us a stunning view of the galaxy's structure.This is because the supermassive Like the galactic nucleus, starburst rings glow brightly in infrared, the wavelength range in which JWST views the Universe in such spectacular detail. Its observations of galaxies like NGC 7469 are expected to yield unprecedented insight into these processes and how they are linked.
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