Daily Telescope: Webb telescope reveals breathtaking structure of galaxies

Enlarge / Nineteen galaxies observed head-on by the James Webb Space Telescope. (credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, et. al.)

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Good morning. It’s January 31, and today’s image comes from the James Webb Space Telescope. The image is actually a collage of many different photos.

NASA’s new infrared telescope observed 19 nearby face-on spiral galaxies in near- and mid-infrared light as part of its contributions to the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS program (PHANGS). This program also includes images and data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope’s Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.