I couldn’t resist sharing this wonderful set of images from JWST courtesy of the PHANGS* team showing exquisite details of 19 face-on spiral galaxies as seen in the infra-red:
More information about the remarkable structures seen in these images, as well as higher resolution versions of the images themselves, can be found on the European Space Agency website here.
*For those of you not in the know, PHANGS stands for Particularly Horrible Acronym Not Generated Sensibly Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS.
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