Scientists harness powers of Webb and Hubble in stunning galactic image [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Stare deeply.
By Mark Kaufman on August 30, 2022



The Webb telescope's view of the object M74, the "Phantom Galaxy." Credit: ESA / Webb / NASA / CSA / J. Lee And The PHANGS-JWST Team / Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt

New images from humanity's most powerful space telescopes — the legendary Hubble telescope and its successor the James Webb Space Telescope — reveal unprecedented detail in this magnificent distant spiral galaxy. It's 32 million light-years away.

The over 30-year-old Hubble telescope views light we can see (visible light), while the Webb telescope views a type of light with longer wavelengths (called "infrared light&quot that isn't visible to us. Together, these instruments gather bounties of data that reveal new insights about what lies in the distant cosmos.

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