James Webb gives us a front-row seat to star birth in the Virgo constellation

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James Webb gives us a front-row seat to star birth in the Virgo constellation
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New images captured by James Webb showcase bubbles of new star birth in a galaxy found within the Virgo constellation.

Image: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team

The galaxy itself is located in the Virgo constellation, roughly 20 million light-years from Earth. What makes this image so intriguing and peculiar, though, is that Webb’s various sensors allow astronomers to dig deeper than the surface level light and gas we’d normally see in a photo of a galaxy far, far away.

The space agency hopes to collect as many images as it can, giving astronomers plenty of data to work with and learn from. Altogether, Webb captured three different images of the star births in the Virgo constellation. The first image is a composite from the MIRI and NIRCam instruments on the telescope. Additionally, NASA shared the NIRCam and MIRI images, too, to give deeper insights into the galaxy.

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