The sky is full of stars from the Hubble Space Telescope.
The image is from the Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. The spiral arms of the Grand Design Spiral are filled with stars.
The colors orange and blue represent the visible and visible wavelengths of blue, respectively, and show areas that are difficult to see due to dust in the way.
The Hubble Space Telescope has the best images of all time.
NASA said in a statement (opens in new tab) about the new image that it is similar to a traffic jam on the interstate.
Like cars on the highway, slower moving matter in the spiral's disk creates a bottleneck, concentrating star-forming gas and dust along the inner part of their spiral arms. This traffic jam of matter can get so dense that it collapses, creating new stars.
Hubble officials have been showing off a number of galaxies in recent weeks, one of which is located 53 million light-years from Earth.
Learning about dark matter concentrations is one of the fields that Hubble's research includes, along with learning about galaxy collision scenarios and types, according to a NASA page (opens in new tab) showcasing the science of the universe.
NASA stated in the science explainer that the discoveries allow them to probe the current properties of the universe as well as examine how they formed and developed over time.
Hubble will soon get a deep-space companion. Hubble's work is going to be extended even deeper into the universe as the James Webb Space Telescope completes its commissioning.
Galaxies show us how the matter in the universe is organized. In order to understand the nature and history of the universe, scientists study how the matter is currently organized and how that organization has changed over time.
The studies will focus on matters such as star formation, early galaxies with low metallicity, and dwarf spheroidal galaxies.
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