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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is now giving out breathtaking images at a regular pace, and its latest snapshot of the spiral galaxy M74 is truly spectacular.
The image, taken by the space observatory's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), shows the galaxy's vast arms in a gorgeous deep purple, and has astronomy excited.
Gabriel Brammer, an associate professor at the University of Denmark who used James Webb data to produce the image, said "let's just see what JWST observed yesterday..."
The date is July 18, 2022.
It's only the beginning of the telescope's work.
"We are drinking from a fire hose," Lee replied. The spectacular image was turned into by the program that produced the data.
A spiral galaxy is made up of a flat, rotating disk with a fainter halo of stars and is often used as a textbook example.
The European Space Agency says that 60 percent of the universe is thought to be spiral.
The filters used for the blue and red channels are brighter relative to the green because of the purple cast.
He put the three separate images together.
Many of the people who worked on JWST are children of the 60s. "MIRI has a very nice view of the star formation in the stars."
While NASA's Hubble telescope has been studying these spiral features for a long time, the JWST will allow is to peer into their center with an unprecedented degree of fidelity.
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