Webb reveals that's no star over there. It's an entire freaking galaxy.
Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a protruding central bulge, shown in blue, where older stars reside. The bulge also seems to have side lobes, suggesting that this could be a barred spiral galaxy like the Milky Way.
No, that’s not a cosmic cone of shame—it’s NASA’s newest space telescope
Satellites come in all shapes and sizes, but there aren't any that look quite like SPHEREx, an infrared observatory NASA launched Tuesday night in search of answers to simmering questions about how the Universe, and ultimately life, came to be.
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Gorgeous Hubble telescope image was 20 years in the making: Space photo of the dayThe Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a star and a spiral galaxy, both in the constellation Virgo. But the photo is ...
Say hello to one of the Milky Way's neighbors! This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a scene from one of the ...
Hubble’s latest image reveals the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a nearby dwarf galaxy visible from Earth without a telescope.
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Stellar nursery sparkles at the edge of our galaxy in gorgeous Hubble Telescope imageThe Hubble Space Telescope image offers an up-close view of one section of the nebula, which is largely shaped by a young ...
The SKA-Low radio telescope in Western Australia is slowly coming online. It will probe the shape of the universe and study ...
"It's time we all realize that we are crew members on this spaceship called Earth and start to think about our role and ...
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