#m74

[quiltofstars]

The Phantom Galaxy, M74 // Tyler Brinkley

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[cosmonautroger]

M74, Phantom Galaxy

[blueiscoool]

M74

Feast your eyes on the beautiful spiral structure of The Phantom Galaxy, M74, as seen by Webb in the mid-infrared. Delicate filaments of dust and gas wind outwards from the center of the galaxy, which has a ring of star formation around its nucleus.

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team. Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt

[netmassimo]

ESA has published images of the galaxy M74, nicknamed the Phantom Galaxy, captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes

ESA has published images of the galaxy M74, nicknamed the Phantom Galaxy, captured by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes with the addition of a combination between them. It's a synergy that takes advantage of Hubble's sensitivity to optical frequencies and Webb's sensitivity to infrared frequencies. This allows to appreciate different details of a spiral galaxy that is practically visible face-on from the Earth and therefore an excellent object of study. Combining observations obtained with instruments that work in different electromagnetic bands is important Webb starts showing the great results it can offer in this type of study as well.

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Messier 74 - from different filters

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phantom galaxy

[therealuniverse]

M74 M74 is a spiral galaxy of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces. M74's spiral arms have many bright blue star clusters and dark cosmic dust lanes. It is classified as an Sc galaxy.

The image covers half the width of the full Moon; it was obtained using 19 hours of exposure on the 1.23-metre telescope at Calar Alto Observatory in the Sierra de Los Filabres mountain range in Spain. The image encompasses 30,000 light-years across the face of M74; including exposures recording emission from hydrogen atoms. These emissions highlight the reddish glow of the galaxy's large star-forming regions. -TEL http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110406.html Credit: Descubre Foundation, Calar Alto Observatory, OAUV, DSA, V. Peris (OAUV), J. L. Lamadrid (CEFCA), J. Harvey (SSRO), S. Mazlin (SSRO), I. Rodriguez (PTeam), O. L. (PTeam), J. Conejero (PixInsight).