7 latest cosmic images captured by NASA's James Webb space telescope
Ritik Raj
Distinctive dwarf galaxy I Zwicky 18, situated 59 million light-years from Earth, is smaller than our own. Within are wispy bubbles of gas formed by winds and radiation from hot, young stars, encircling two bursts of star formation.
A nebula against the pitch-black background of space sits at the image's centre. Clumps of red, filamentary clouds make up the nebula.
NGC 6440 is a globular cluster that is 28,000 light years away and orbits within the Galactic bulge. Older stars—hundreds of thousands to millions of them—are firmly gravitationally bound together in globular clusters.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, contains the massive star-forming region N79, which is visible in this Webb telescope image.
The Horsehead: Nebulae are renowned for having a head resembling a horse. However, this cloud of gas and dust is not as simple as it first appears.
This picture of the galaxy NGC 5468, which is roughly 130 million light-years away from Earth, was created by combining information from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.
The constellation Cetus contains the spiral galaxy NGC 1087, which is located 80 million light-years away.