{"id":231032,"date":"2025-06-07T04:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=3c8adf3fe5f4807fad045f3101be8fda"},"modified":"2025-06-07T04:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T18:02:54","slug":"webb-sees-sombrero-galaxy-in-near-infrared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=231032","title":{"rendered":"Webb Sees Sombrero Galaxy in Near-Infrared"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Image of a galaxy on the black background of space. The galaxy is a very oblong, brownish yellowish disk that extends from left to right at an angle (from about 10 o\u2019clock to 5 o\u2019clock). Mottled dark brown patches rim the edge of the disk and are particularly prominent where they cross directly in front of the galaxy. The galaxy\u2019s center glows white and extends above and below the disk. There are different colored dots, distant galaxies, speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy. At the bottom right, there is a particularly bright foreground star with Webb\u2019s signature diffraction spikes.\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png 11909w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=300,280 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=768,717 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=1024,956 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=1536,1434 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=2048,1911 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=400,373 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=600,560 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=900,840 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=1200,1120 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/54565613170-7e8bef5479-o.png?resize=2000,1867 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" loading=\"eager\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-caption-text p-sm margin-0\">NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged the Sombrero Galaxy with its NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), which shows dust from the galaxy\u2019s outer ring blocking stellar light from stars within the galaxy. In the central region of the galaxy, the roughly 2,000 globular clusters, or collections of hundreds of thousands of old stars held together by gravity, glow in the near-infrared. The Sombrero Galaxy is around 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. From Earth, we see this galaxy nearly \u201cedge-on,\u201d or from the side.<\/div>\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>After capturing an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/webb\/hats-off-to-nasas-webb-sombrero-galaxy-dazzles-in-new-image\/\" rel=\"noopener\">image<\/a>\u00a0of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope has now followed up with an observation in the near-infrared. In the newest image, released on June 3, 2025, the Sombrero galaxy\u2019s tightly packed group of stars at the galaxy\u2019s center is illuminated while the dust in the outer edges of the disk blocks some stellar light. Studying galaxies like the Sombrero at\u00a0different wavelengths, including the near-infrared and mid-infrared with Webb, as well as the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/hubble-provides-new-view-of-galactic-favorite\/\" rel=\"noopener\">visible with NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>, helps astronomers understand how this complex system of stars, dust, and gas formed and evolved, along with the interplay of that material.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/webb\/nasas-webb-rounds-out-picture-of-sombrero-galaxys-disk\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about the Sombrero galaxy and what this new view can tell us.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image credit: &nbsp;NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After capturing an\u00a0image\u00a0of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope has now followed up with an observation in the near-infrared. In the newest image, released on June 3, 2025, the Sombrero galaxy\u2019s tightly packed group of stars at the galaxy\u2019s center is illuminated while the dust in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galaxies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231074,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231032\/revisions\/231074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}