The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to amaze with breathtaking images. This year, the JWST revealed stunning views of spiral galaxies, a hidden neutron star in a supernova remnant, and other distant cosmic marvels.
From the moment it unfurled its distinctive hexagonal mirrors in early 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope has treated the world to a steady stream of remarkable images. This year was no exception: over the course of 2024, the JWST delighted scientists and amateur astronomers alike with everything from spectacular pictures of nebulae and colliding galaxies to images of some of the most distant objects we’ve ever observed. Here are some of our favorites.
Spiral galaxy images Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee (STScI), Thomas Williams (Oxford), PHANGS Team NASA welcomed the new year by releasing a series of 19 gorgeous images of spiral galaxies. Combining data from the JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIR-Cam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) with visible-light images from the Hubble Space Telescope, these images provide a detailed view of these galaxies’ intricate–and beautiful–internal structures. A neutron star in the remnants of a supernova Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Claes Fransson (Stockholm University), Mikako Matsuura (Cardiff University), M. Barlow (UCL), Patrick Kavanagh (Maynooth University), Josefin Larsson (KTH) Around 168,000 years ago, a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud exploded in a spectacular Type II supernova. The light from this event reached Earth in early 1987, and the explosion was bright enough to be seen by the naked eye for several months. Ever since, scientists have speculated on what sort of stellar remnant might have been left behind. Most models suggested a neutron star, but no such object was detected–until February, when the JWST’s infrared cameras solved the mystery by finding the theorized neutron star hiding in a cloud of dus
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