{"id":182678,"date":"2024-02-14T12:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/staggering-structure-in-19-nearby-spiral-galaxies"},"modified":"2024-02-14T12:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:39:58","slug":"staggering-structure-in-19-nearby-spiral-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/staggering-structure-in-19-nearby-spiral-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Staggering Structure in 19 Nearby Spiral Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/staggering-structure-in-19-nearby-spiral-galaxies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The James Webb Space Telescope observed 19 nearby face-on spiral galaxies in near-and mid-infrared light as part of its contributions to the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s oh-so-easy to be absolutely mesmerized by these spiral galaxies. Follow their clearly defined arms, which are brimming with stars, to their centers, where there may be old star clusters and \u2013 sometimes \u2013 active supermassive black holes. Only NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope can deliver highly detailed scenes of nearby galaxies in a combination of near-and mid-infrared light \u2014 and a set of these images was publicly released today.<\/p>\n<p>These Webb images are part of a large, long-standing project, the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program, which is supported by more than 150 astronomers worldwide. Before Webb took these images, PHANGS was already brimming with data from NASA\u2019s Hubble Space Telescope, the Very Large Telescope\u2019s Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, and the Atacama Large Millimeter\/submillimeter Array, including observations in ultraviolet, visible, and radio light. Webb\u2019s near-and mid-infrared contributions have provided several new puzzle pieces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The James Webb Space Telescope observed 19 nearby face-on spiral galaxies in near-and mid-infrared light as part of its contributions to the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program. It\u2019s oh-so-easy to be absolutely mesmerized by these spiral galaxies. Follow their clearly defined arms, which are brimming with stars, to their centers, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}