SciencefromThe Atlantic1 day agoDay 12 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Barred SpiralNGC 5335 is a flocculent barred spiral galaxy 235 million light-years away; its central bar channels gas inward to fuel star formation, seen head-on.
SciencefromThe Atlantic4 days agoDay 9 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Cosmic Cat's PawThe James Webb Space Telescope imaged a star-forming "toe beans" region in the Cat's Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), about 4,000 light-years away.
OMG sciencefromThe Atlantic1 week agoDay 3 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: A Galactic ClusterGalaxy Cluster Abell 209 contains over 100 galaxies about 2.8 billion light-years away whose combined mass gravitationally lenses and stretches background galaxies.