The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a large spiral galaxy that resembles Earth's own Milky Way Galaxy.
The large spiral galaxy shown above is in the lower section of the full photo and it — named LEDA 2046648 and situated more than a billion light-years away in the constellation Hercules — is accompanied by a “profusion” of smaller and more distant galaxies.
The ESA explains that one of Webb’s main science goals is to observe distant galaxies from the early universe to help astronomers better understand how the formed, how they are evolving, and what they are made of. To do this, Webb has a series of infrared cameras that capture different wavelengths of the spectrum.
As part of this process and in order to take full advantage of the telescope’s capability, astronomers and engineers must first calibrate the telescope’s instruments and systems.
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