My goodness! A collection of crazy new images from the Webb Space Telescope have been released, and they show spiral galaxies. The photos were taken as part of the Physics at High Angular Resolution in Near GalaxieS (PHANGS) project, which is collecting data on 74 spiral galaxies, and they are stunning!
It’s so crazy to look at these images and see what’s out there in deep space and they remind us how insignificant we are. I love these images!
Janice Lee, project scientist for strategic initiatives at the Space Telescope Science Institute, said in a statement: “They are mind-blowing even to 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 that of IC 5332. NGC 628 is located 32 million light-years away, in the constellation Pisces.
The spiral galaxy NGC 1087. This bright orange structure is located about 80 million light-years away. Its core is bright, although the 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 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 Clock. The center of the galaxy is a bright white spot surrounded by a yellowish oval.
This is NGC 1512, also in the constellation Horologium, the front center of this galaxy is almost a circle, from which the spiral arms extend towards the dense oval ring of material.
At 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 center of the galaxy.
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 stunning yellow oval surrounded by its filamentary orange arms.
NGC 3627 is located 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 located 24 million light-years away, in the constellation Crane.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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