The powerful space telescope observed the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, creating a stunning image that reveals active star formation.
The James Webb Space Telescope imaged bright tendrils of gas and stars belonging to the barred spiral galaxy NGC 5068, whose bright central bar is visible in the upper left of this image.
The portrait of NGC 5068 shows tendrils of gas and stars stretching throughout the barred spiral galaxy. The bright and dense central bar of the galaxy, which sets it apart from"non-barred" spiral galaxies, can be seen in the upper left-hand corner of the image. These large central bars are not solid objects but are instead made of tightly clustered stars, and the stellar bars possessed by galaxies like NGC 5068 may indicate they are older and more evolved than unbarred spiralAs this bar of stars swirls, astronomers think it may pull gas and dust to the center of these galaxies, where it acts as the fuel for intense bursts of star formation. The action of the bar in NGC 5068 seems to be causing stars to form in a spiral-like shape.
, was created using two of the JWST's primary instruments Mid-InfraRed Instrument and the Near-Infrared Spectrograph both attuned to different wavelengths of infrared light.
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