Zoom: A Spiral Amongst Thousands
This video takes the viewers on a journey into the field of stars and galaxies surrounding the spiral galaxy LEDA 2046648. Webb’s NIRCam instrument has picked out a profusion of smaller, more distant galaxies and bright stars around this galaxy, demonstrating the telescope’s impressive resolution in infrared wavelengths. Calibration images such as this one were critical to verify the telescope’s capabilities as it was prepared for science operations, and this one doesn’t disappoint.
Credit:ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Martel, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, DSS, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. de Martin, N. Bartmann, M. Zamani
Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
About the Video
| Id: | potm2301b | |
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| Release date: | 31 January 2023, 06:00 | |
| Duration: | 01 m 00 s | |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps | |
About the Object
| Category: | Galaxies Picture of the Month Zooms | |
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