Jaw-Dropping New Webb Telescope Image Of Two Galaxies Uses A Little Help From Hubble - Forbes

Researchers traced light that was emitted by the bright white elliptical galaxy on the left through ...

Webb’s near-infrared data also shows us the galaxy’s longer, extremely dusty spiral arms in far more detail, giving them an appearance of overlapping with the central bulge of the bright white elliptical galaxy on the left, though the pair are not interacting.

The new composite image shows never-before-seen detail in a white elliptical galaxy (left) and a spiral galaxy (right).

“Webb’s near-infrared data also show us the galaxy’s longer, extremely dusty spiral arms in far more detail, giving the arms an appearance of overlapping with the central bulge of the bright white elliptical galaxy on the left,” said Rogier Windhorst, Webb interdisciplinary scientist, on a NASA blog.

Above the white elliptical galaxy at left, a faint red arc appears in the inset at 10 o’clock.