Webb Telescope , Sheds Light , on the Early Universe.
Gizmodo reports that NASA's Webb
Space Telescope has taken aim at
the barred spiral galaxy EGS23205. .
The distant galaxy will reportedly increase
our understanding of the young universe and
how the first stars and galaxies took form.
Previously, NASA's Hubble Telescope also captured images
of the galaxy. However, Webb's sharper images reveal
a stellar bar reaching out from the galactic center. .
The bars hardly visible in Hubble data
just popped out in the JWST image, showing
the tremendous power of JWST to see
the underlying structure in galaxies, Shardha Jogee, astronomer at UT Austin
and co-author of the research, via Gizmodo.
A stellar bar is a massive galactic
cross-section of countless stars, which
plays a crucial role in galactic evolution. .
They help to push gas toward the galaxy's
center, fueling star formation and feeding
the central supermassive black hole. .
The Webb Telescope has been targeting some of
the earliest galaxies ever seen, which appear as they
were several hundred million years after the Big Bang.
The images captured of EGS23205
are snapshots of the galaxy
about 11 billion years ago. .
In October, NASA's new $10 billion observatory captured images of the Pillars of Creation, massive plumes of dust and gas found in the Eagle Nebula.
The same month, Webb produced an image
of merging galaxies approximately
270 million light-years away from Earth.