The James Webb Telescope provides images of a luxurious spiral galaxy

The James Webb Space Telescope continues to show the universe like we’ve never seen it before. Launched into space at the end of 2021 and in operation since July, it has captured a new detail of a galaxy, M74, also called the Phantom Galaxy. Its brilliant blue core and flawless spiral vortex were observed by the Merry instrument, as a result of cooperation between Europeans and Americans, who study the middle infrared. The result was a stunning image published on Monday, August 29 by the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA.

Webb’s insight revealed minute filaments of gas and dust in the luminous, spiral-shaped arms sprouting from the center of this image.note theESA on its website (link in english)which specifies that the galaxy has already been observed by the legendary Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched in 1990 and is still in operation.

Feast your eyes on the beautiful spiral structure of the Phantom Galaxy, M74, as seen by Webb in the mid-infrared. Fine filaments of dust and gas stream outward from the galaxy’s center, which contains a ring of star formation around its core. https://t.co/pPVvxsC6KA pic.twitter.com/JQ2C9Wf19f

—NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) August 30 2022

The European Agency also notes that a Gas shortage It provides a clearer view of the stars in the center of this galaxy, which is located about 32 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.

Data collected “It will allow astronomers to determine the regions of the galaxy in which stars form, accurately measure the mass and age of star clusters and better understand the nature of tiny dust grains drifting in interstellar space.”also notes the European Space Agency.

An engineering gem worth $10 billion, the James Webb Telescope conducts its observations 1.5 million kilometers from Earth. On Thursday, August 25, researchers announced that they had detected, for the first time, the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, that is, a planet outside our solar system.