The James Webb Space Telescope continues to provide scientists back on Earth with truly wondrous images.
In July 2022, the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope started beaming images back to Earth - fitted with highly sensitive instruments that allow it to view older and more distant objects than Hubble. The JWST has transformed our views of distant space. Now, highly detailed images of 19 glorious spiral galaxies have been released by NASA for scientists to study, including those at Oxford University.
The university said the "extraordinary images will provide several new puzzle pieces for astronomers and astrophysicists around the world".
Thomas Williams, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford's physics department, has been leading work on processing data from the latest pictures. "The amount of detail in these images is overwhelming - in a good way," he said.
"It means that we may be able to fill in more of the gaps in our knowledge about the structure and evolution of galaxies, star formation, the life-cycle of stars and so much more."
In December 2022, OGN published an extraordinary collection of images - Best Space Pictures From JWST - that you may like to see.