M74 shines at its brightest in this combined optical/mid-infrared image, featuring data from both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. With Hubble’s venerable Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Webb’s powerful Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) capturing a range of wavelengths, this new image has remarkable depth. The red colors mark dust threaded through the arms of the galaxy, lighter oranges being areas of hotter dust. The young stars throughout the arms and the nucle.
Image: “The Phantom Galaxy Across the Spectrum” by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, licensed CC BY 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons.
Credit and licence
- Creator
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Terms
- Attribution required; changes must be indicated (resized and recompressed for the app). Commercial use and redistribution permitted.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- “The Phantom Galaxy Across the Spectrum” by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (CC BY 2.0), via Wikimedia Commons
