The James Webb Space Telescope has captured new details of a galaxy known as “Phantom” that appears to be spirally shaped in stunning images published by the European and American space agencies.
Since its launch into space in late 2021 and its practical entry into service last July, James Webb has provided a wealth of unprecedented data to scientists, through images of Jupiter and a number of nebulae and other distant galaxies.
The new image provides a view of the details of the galaxy “M74” called “Phantom”, in which a vortex with a blue circle appears in the middle, and it was provided by the MIRI instrument that studies medium infrared radiation, and it is the fruit of cooperation between Europeans and Americans.
The European Space Agency noted on its website that James Webb showed “fine filaments of gas and dust in the luminous spiral arms extending from the center of this image.”
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The agency recalled that the famous Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched in 1990 and is still in service, had previously observed this galaxy.
The James Webb Telescope, which cost ten billion dollars, is located about 1.5 million kilometers from the planet.
Last week, researchers announced that for the first time, it had detected the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, a planet outside the solar system that includes Earth.
Earlier, “NASA” published new images of Jupiter taken by the James Webb Space Telescope last July.
Recent images showed the largest planet in the solar system in an unprecedented way, amid expectations that the images will help scientists understand what is happening on Jupiter.
“NASA” explained that the James Webb Space Telescope, with its infrared camera, captured unprecedented views of the northern and southern lights of Jupiter, enormous storms, winds and the fiery aurora borealis.
One of the wide-field images was particularly exciting, showing faint rings around the planet, as well as two small moons against a shimmering background of galaxies.
And NASA indicated that the infrared images were colored through filters in blue, white, green, yellow and orange, to highlight certain parts of Jupiter.