James Webb Space Telescope Feed Post

M74 Infrared Webb

Four new composite images including X-rays from Chandra and infrared data from Webb feature two galaxies, a nebula, and a star cluster. Data from Hubble (optical light) and retired Spitzer (infrared), plus XMM-Newton (X-ray) and the New Technology Telescope (optical) is also used. X-rays generally reveal more energetic and hotter phenomena than infrared light. The objects in this new collection, beginning in the upper left and moving clockwise, are NGC 346, a star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, Messier 16 (also known as the Eagle Nebula), and Messier 74, a spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way.