Hubble vs. James Webb Telescope - Complex Structures Revealed! #Shorts

The ESA/Webb/NASA team released this incredible new picture of galaxy IC5332 using its mid-infrared (MIRI) camera!!! The MIRI camera is awesome, because it allows astronomers to peer through the dark dust clouds that are present in most galaxies in search of complex strucutres such as new, young interstellar nurseries within this galaxy that are hiding behind those dark clouds (look for the red dots!).

One of the biggest obstacles in the visualisation of astronomical objects is that telescopes with "normal" cameras cannot peer through dark dust clouds that captures what we call "visible light" - the light we also see with our human eyes. This video first shows a picture of galaxy IC5332 in visible light as captured by the widefield camera on the Hubble space telescope, but then transitions to the picture taken by the James Webb mid infrared (MIRI) camera. This picture demonstrates just one aspect of the telescopes has huge scientific potential!

The galaxy in the picture IC5332 is a spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away - relatively close to our own Milky Way on a cosmic scale. As viewed from earth it is nearly "face on", it has a small central bulge, and large open spiral arms just like the Milky Way Galaxy.

Which picture do you like best?

Clear skies,

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Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST and PHANGS-HST Teams.

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