NGC 7496, JWST, Hubble

NGC 7496  This composite image from the James Webb and the Hubble Space Telescopes shows the barred spiral galaxy  NGC 7496, which lies over 24 million light-years away in the constellation Grus. This constellation, whose name is Latin for crane, is one of four constellations collectively known as the Southern Birds. The Hubble image is beautiful and is in the visual wavelengths but Hubble’s instruments were unable to penetrate the thick dust and gas that surrounds these regions. The Hubble image can be seen here.https://earthandskyimaging.com/product/ngc-7496-jwst/ JWST, though, can see infrared light that bounces off the dust, allowing the telescope to probe close to the moments when the stars switched on and nuclear fusion ignited in their cores. What’s most remarkable is that NGC 7496 is a normal galaxy, “not a poster-child galaxy.” Yet under the watchful eye of JWST, it suddenly comes to life and reveals channels where stars are forming. The JWST image can be seen here.  https://earthandskyimaging.com/product/ngc-7496-jwst-2 .The image was done by Michael Adler using downloaded data from the MAST site.