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Webb's View of M64
Sometimes where Hubble finds darkness, Webb sees light. An example is today’s composite images of Messier 64 (M64), a nearby spiral galaxy of many names. The dark band of dust partially blocking its bright core earned it the moniker “the Black Eye Galaxy.” Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) sees that dust, shown in red, as it absorbs and re-emits light from surrounding newborn stars. These young stars are…
- Credit
- APOD · NASA — public domain
- Telescope
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Instrument
- MIRI
- Seeing in
- mid-infrared
- Release
- ap260916
- Licence
- Credit as published
- Published
- Source
- APOD release page
- Full size
- Original file