{"id":385720,"date":"2026-03-13T01:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=f49e525d32e22fa666df3409d980188d"},"modified":"2026-03-13T01:56:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:56:51","slug":"webb-spots-details-in-nearby-spiral-galaxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=385720","title":{"rendered":"Webb Spots Details in Nearby Spiral Galaxy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Two powerful instruments of the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope joined forces to create this scenic galaxy view. This spiral galaxy is named NGC 5134, and it\u2019s located 65 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo.<\/div>\n
ESA\/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20, 2026, image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb\u2019s Mid-Infrared Instrument<\/a> collects the mid-infrared light emitted by the warm dust speckled through the galaxy\u2019s clouds, tracing the clumps and strands of dusty gas. The telescope’s Near Infrared Camera<\/a> records shorter-wavelength near-infrared light, mostly from the stars and star clusters that dot the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms.<\/p>\n

By using Webb to study the infrared light nearby galaxies like NGC 5134 whose stars and gas can be seen in detail, astronomers can apply their knowledge to galaxies too distant to be observed so closely \u2014 like those that are scattered in the background of this image, barely more than points of light.<\/p>\n

Read more about this galaxy.<\/a><\/p>\n

Text credit: ESA (European Space Agency)<\/em><\/p>\n

Image credit: ESA\/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Leroy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stars peek through the dusty, winding arms of NGC 5134, a spiral galaxy located 65 million light-years away, in this Feb. 20, 2026, image from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope. Webb\u2019s Mid-Infrared Instrument collects the mid-infrared light emitted by the warm dust speckled through the galaxy\u2019s clouds, tracing the clumps and strands of dusty gas. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385720","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385763,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385720\/revisions\/385763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}