NASA's Webb Depicts Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies | Web

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope delivers highly detailed images of nearby spiral galaxies, revealing intricate structures like star clusters, active supermassive black holes, and glowing dust. The images are part of the PHANGS program, a large project involving data from multiple telescopes. Webb's near- and mid-infrared light reveals details never seen before, showing star formation, gas distribution, and possibly active supermassive black holes. The research community has access to these images and a catalog of roughly 100,000 star clusters.