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Newborn stars sculpt their galaxies in new James Webb telescope images

JWST’s sharp infrared eyes reveal stunning new details invisible to previous observatories

An image from the James Webb Space Telecope showing face-on spiral galaxy, NGC 628, with its whorls of colored gas and dust, pockmarked with dark areas.

New JWST images of face-on spiral galaxies like NGC 628 (shown) reveal whorls of gas and dust, pockmarked with dark voids. These voids are thought to be bubbles in the gas and dust created by radiation from young, massive stars, and by supernovas.

NASA, ESA, CSA, Judy Schmidt (CC BY 2.0)