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James Webb telescope reveals 'cosmic tornado'

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.

James Webb telescope reveals 'cosmic tornado' in best detail ever — and finds part of it is not what it seems

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has snapped a spectacular image of a "cosmic tornado" being burped out from a baby star. The image reveals an outflow of hot gas from a newborn star — known as a Herbig-Haro object — situated about 625 light-years from Earth in the constellation Chamaeleon.

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'Cosmic tornado' swirls in breathtaking new James Webb Space Telescope image

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's images weren't clear enough to discern the fuzzy object located at its tip — but JWST 's are.

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NASA telescope captures exact moment star forms in stunning color images beamed to earth

A breathtaking cosmic dance unfolds as the Webb Telescope captures a star's birth, set against a spiral galaxy's mesmerizing ...

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Breathtaking 'cosmic tornado' swirling image captured by NASA telescope

A 'cosmic coincidence' leads to one of the most amazing images ever captured by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Deep dive into space turns up new Spitzer bubbles

Using AI image recognition, deep learning model efficiently and accurately finds structures related to star formation.

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