Aug 28, 2024, 06:58 PM IST
The JWST's recent survey of 19 spiral galaxies, including our Milky Way, revealed detailed views of their structure. Infrared images showed clouds of dust glowing in red and orange.
Newborn star HH 211, 1,000 light-years away, shoots out gas and dust streams, creating shockwaves that resemble lightsabers. This might be how our sun looked billions of years ago.
The nebula N79, 1,630 light-years wide in the Large Magellanic Cloud, bursts with color from interstellar hydrogen clouds. This star-forming region is largely unexplored by astronomers.
JWST's debut image is the most detailed and deepest ever, showing a bright galaxy cluster magnifying light from stars over 13 billion light-years away, with thousands of younger galaxies in the background.
The "Phantom Galaxy," 32 million light-years away, resembles a celestial nautilus shell with its prominent spiral arms, earning it the name "grand design spiral."
Stephan's Quintet, 290 million light-years away in Pegasus, features five galaxies in a tight, near-collisional dance, stretching and warping stars as they pass each other.
The Cartwheel Galaxy, 500 million light-years away, is a spiral galaxy with a wagon-wheel shape due to an ancient collision. It likely resembled the Milky Way before this event.
JWST’s close-up of Uranus reveals 11 of its 13 rings in stunning detail, offering a new view of the distant planet, which is not visible to the naked eye from Earth.
A young star expels gas streams into dust clouds, forming a fiery hourglass shape in the constellation Taurus.