Mind-Blowing New Spiral Galaxy Images From The Webb Telescope
Holy crap! A collection of insane new images from the Webb Space Telescope have been released, and they feature spiral galaxies. The photos were taken as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) project, which is collecting data on 74 spiral galaxies, and they are stunning!
It’s so crazy to look at these images an see what’s out there in deep space and its a reminder of how insignificant we are. I love these images!
Janice Lee, a project scientist for strategic initiatives at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said in a release: “They’re mind-blowing even for researchers who have studied these same galaxies for decades. Bubbles and filaments are resolved down to the smallest scales ever observed, and tell a story about the star formation cycle.”
Enjoy the collection of images below!
Galaxy IC 5332 is a spiral galaxy 30 million light-years from Earth. It is densely populated with stars.
NGC 628, a spiral galaxy whose shape is more pronounced than IC 5332's. NGC 628 is 32 million light-years away, in the constellation Pisces.
The spiral galaxy NGC 1087. This luminous orange structure is about 80 million light-years away. Its core is bright, though individual arms of the spiral galaxy are difficult to spot.
69 million light-years away, in the constellation Eridanus, the barred spiral galaxy has a bright center, surrounded by S-shaped arms.
This glow emanates from the spiral galaxy NGC 1365, 56 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax.
This is spiral is just 30 million light-years from Earth.
This image is of the spiral galaxy NGC 1433, 46 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Horologium. The galaxy’s center is a bright white splotch surrounded by a yellowish oval.
This is NGC 1512, also in the constellation Horologium, this galaxy’s face-on center is nearly a circle, out of which spiral arms stretch out toward the dense, oval ring of material.
60 million light-years away, the spiral galaxy NGC 1566 consists of a bright bluish-white core and counterclockwise fiery arcs—the spiral arms extend from the galaxy’s center.
This is NGC 1672, a spiral galaxy 60 million light-years from Earth.
33 million light-years away, in the constellation Leo, NGC 3351 is a remarkable yellow oval surrounded by its filamentous orange arms.
NGC 3627 is 36 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.
A densely populated spiral galaxy 50 million light-years from Earth.
This galaxy is just 20 million light-years from Earth.
This galaxy is 24 million light-years away, in the constellation Gru.