NASA shares image of Cigar Galaxy taken by Hubble and Webb telescope: ‘Something strange happened…’
ALSO READ: Could Jupiter's icy moon support life? NASA's new mission explained in 5 points A detailed inspection of the new Webb image has revealed that this red glowing dust is associated with hot plasma. “M82 has garnered a variety of observations over the years because it can be considered as the prototypical starburst galaxy," Alberto Bolatto, team leader and University of Maryland researcher, said in a statement.
“Both Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have observed this target." “With the JWST's size and resolution, we can look at this star-forming galaxy and see all of this beautiful new detail," he added. This starburst galaxy could have been stirred up by a recent pass near its neighbor, large spiral galaxy M81, but this doesn’s explain the source of the red glowing outwardly expanding gas and dust.
Evidence suggests that this material is being driven out by the combined emerging particle winds of many stars, together creating a galactic superwind. ALSO READ: US, Japan Announce Plans to Send Japanese Astronaut to Moon “This image shows the power of the JWST," team member and University of Arizona scientist Rebecca Levy said in the statement.
“Every single white dot in this image is either a star or a star cluster. We can start to distinguish all of these tiny point sources, which enables us to acquire an accurate count of all the star clusters in this galaxy," she added.Milestone Alert!
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