10 mesmerising images of galaxies shared by NASA

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured detailed images of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing star formation and its central black hole, along with companion galaxies and many background galaxies.

This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula, revealing "mountains" and "valleys" of star birth previously unseen.

This all-sky map from the ESA's Planck mission, with NASA contributions, shows polarized dust in the Milky Way galaxy. The fiery colors represent light at 353 gigahertz, beyond visible wavelengths.

This festive portrait of the Milky Way from ESA's Planck mission, with key NASA contributions, shows gas, charged particles, and various dust types in microwave and millimeter wavelengths.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope used infrared cameras to penetrate dust clouds, revealing the stars at the Milky Way's crowded center.

NASA's SOFIA observed magnetic fields in Centaurus A, shown as streamlines over composite images from the ESO and Atacama Pathfinder (orange), NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue), and Spitzer Space Telescope (dark red).

Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope assembled a comprehensive picture of the evolving universe – among the most colorful deep space images ever captured at the time. 

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared image of Messier 81, located 12 million light-years away, highlights its spiral arms and star-forming regions. 

This panoramic view combines 370 pointings from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, revealing superheated gas and magnetic fields near the Milky Way's center, complemented by radio data.