{"id":23411,"date":"2023-06-05T07:11:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2a6f53a6-be10-46ec-a5bd-7675c96538c312"},"modified":"2023-06-05T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:11:36","slug":"latest-webb-telescope-images-gives-a-look-at-stars-being-born-in-the-virgo-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/latest-webb-telescope-images-gives-a-look-at-stars-being-born-in-the-virgo-constellation\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Webb Telescope images gives a look at stars being born in the Virgo constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"
It seems like every few weeks, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) drop an impressive image from the James Webb Space Telescope that is both stunning to behold<\/span> and advances our knowledge<\/span> of the universe. The latest<\/span> is of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, called a “barred” galaxy because of the bright central bar you can see in the upper left of the above image. It’s a combination image consisting of infrared shots taken from the telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) and NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) sensors. <\/p>\n What those sensors captured is a galaxy in the Virgo constellation about 20 million light-years from Earth, and because the JWST can see through the dust and gas that surrounds stars as they’re born, the instrument is particularly suited to producing images that show the process of star formation.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Looking at the two individual images that make up the composite reveals different layers of the galaxy. As Gizmodo<\/em> notes<\/span>, <\/em>the image produced by the MIRI sensor provides a view of the galaxy’s structure and the glowing gas bubbles that represent newly formed stars.<\/p>\n