NGC 602 (NIRCam and MIRI image)
Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200 000 light-years from Earth, lies the young star cluster NGC 602, which is featured in this new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
This image includes data from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera) and MIRI (Mid-InfraRed Instrument).
Fireworks !!!
(NGC 6946 also known as Fireworks Galaxy)
Courtesy: Retret66
The Great Attractor !
The Great Attractor is a region of gravitational attraction in intergalactic space and the apparent central gravitational point of the Laniakea Supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way galaxy, as well as about 100,000 other galaxies.
Representative Image/Reuters
COSMOS-AzTEC-1.
COSMOS-AzTEC-1 is almost 13 billion years old
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Penguin and Egg galaxies !
A photo taken by the James Webb Space Telescope shows the distorted spiral galaxy at center, the Penguin, and the compact elliptical galaxy at left, the Egg, locked in an active embrace.
Courtesy: Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach, NASA, ESA, CSA, M. Marin (STSCI)
These two stunning images show the same cosmic object, located 160,000 light-years away, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The blue image highlights near-infrared and visible light, while the red image covers near-ultraviolet to infrared light.
Astrophysicists believe the first generation of stars ejected matter, which, due to the cluster's high density, couldn't escape its gravity.
Credit: NASA
Faraway galaxies...
Faraway galaxies dot the void like scattered jewels or grains of sand in this deep field image from the James Webb Space Telescope.
The most distant galaxies in such images tend to appear as small, reddish blobs.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Marcia Rieke (University of Arizona), Daniel Eisenstein (CfA)
Image N.18 of #Hubble30 : A Rose Made of Galaxies
A rose made of two interacting galaxies. The distorted shape is likely due to gravitational effects, and it is thought that the smaller galaxy has passed through the larger one.
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
NGC 4696 !
Which lies 150 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus.
NGC 4696 has a unique structure, with curling filaments that stretch out from its core and carve out a cosmic question mark ? in the dark. This image is from a set of observations by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope which revealed its structure in greater detail than before, showing its core is responsible for the shape of its filaments.
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration , ESA - European Space Agency / Hubble Space Telescope , A. Fabian.
Euclid’s new image of spiral galaxy NGC 6744,
Which is 30 million light-years away.
ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA; Image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre (CEA Paris-Saclay), G. Anselmi
The Phantom Galaxy, M74 !
M74 shines at its brightest in this combined optical/mid-infrared image, featuring data from both the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
With Hubble’s venerable Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Webb’s powerful Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) capturing a range of wavelengths, this new image has remarkable depth. The red colours mark dust threaded through the arms of the galaxy, lighter oranges being areas of hotter dust. The young stars throughout the arms and the nuclear core are picked out in blue. Heavier, older stars towards the galaxy’s centre are shown in cyan and green, projecting a spooky glow from the core of the Phantom Galaxy. Bubbles of star formation are also visible in pink across the arms. Such a variety of galactic features is rare to see in a single image.
Scientists combine data from telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum to truly understand astronomical objects. In this way, data from Hubble and Webb compliment each other to provide a comprehensive view of the spectacular M74 galaxy.
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team; ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt
DESI Map !
A slice of the 3D map of galaxies collected in the first year of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Survey. Earth is at the tip, with the furthest galaxies plotted at distances of 11 billion light-years. Each point represents one galaxy.
This version of the DESI map includes 600,000 galaxies — less than 0.1% of the survey's full volume.
Credit: DESI Collaboration/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R. Proctor
The galaxy group Pandora’s Cluster sits in front of a cosmic background brimming with deep space galaxies.
Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology) / R. Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh) / A. Pagan (STScI)
Messier 74 galaxy
Photo: Gabriel Brammer
Cosmic Dawn Center, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen / James Webb Space Telescope
Clusters of galaxies
As seen by the eROSITA All-Sky Survey with red dots indicating redshift 1 objects and blue dots indicating redshift 3 objects.
Image credit: MPE, J. Sanders for the eROSITA consortium
