Happy launchiversary, NASAWebb! Our next-generation telescope blasted off on its mission to UnfoldTheUniverse one year ago today—but the journey's only just begun:
A Wreath of Star Formation in NGC 7469This image is dominated by NGC 7469, a luminous, face-on spiral galaxy approximately 90 000 light-years in diameter that lies roughly 220 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. Its companion galaxy IC 5283 is partly visible in the lower left portion of this image.
NGC 7469 is home to an active galactic nucleus , which is an extremely bright central region that is dominated by the light emitted by dust and gas as it falls into the galaxy’s central black hole. This galaxy provides astronomers with the unique opportunity to study the relationship between AGNs and starburst activity because this particular object hosts an AGN that is surrounded by a starburst ring at a distance of a mere 1500 light-years.
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