This Cosmic Whirlpool Captured By NASA's James Webb Telescope Is Brilliant

This Cosmic Whirlpool Captured By NASA's James Webb Telescope Is Brilliant

A spectacular, infrared image of the Whirlpool galaxy NGC 5194 was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).

Webb captures a cosmic Whirlpool

Paris (ESA) Aug 30, 2023 The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and wonderful spiral galaxies with ragged or disrupted spiral arms, grand-design spiral galaxies boast prominent, well-developed spiral arms like the ones showcased in this image. This galactic portrait is a composite image that