Webb Telescope Sheds Light on the Early Universe

Webb Telescope , Sheds Light , on the Early Universe.

Gizmodo reports that NASA's Webb Space Telescope has taken aim at the barred spiral galaxy EGS23205.

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The distant galaxy will reportedly increase our understanding of the young universe and how the first stars and galaxies took form.

Previously, NASA's Hubble Telescope also captured images of the galaxy.

However, Webb's sharper images reveal a stellar bar reaching out from the galactic center.

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The bars hardly visible in Hubble data just popped out in the JWST image, showing the tremendous power of JWST to see the underlying structure in galaxies, Shardha Jogee, astronomer at UT Austin and co-author of the research, via Gizmodo.

A stellar bar is a massive galactic cross-section of countless stars, which plays a crucial role in galactic evolution.

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They help to push gas toward the galaxy's center, fueling star formation and feeding the central supermassive black hole.

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The Webb Telescope has been targeting some of the earliest galaxies ever seen, which appear as they were several hundred million years after the Big Bang.

The images captured of EGS23205 are snapshots of the galaxy about 11 billion years ago.

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In October, NASA's new $10 billion observatory captured images of the Pillars of Creation, massive plumes of dust and gas found in the Eagle Nebula.

The same month, Webb produced an image of merging galaxies approximately 270 million light-years away from Earth.