The James Webb telescope captured an image of M51, a galaxy 27 million light-years away. The telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble and can take images in unprecedented detail.

In 2011, scientists imaging M51 with Hubble hoped to capture the galaxy with the JWST one day. That day has arrived. With a hypnotic new image released on Tuesday (Aug. 29), the James Webb Space ...

Even though the galaxy - also know as M51 - has been pictured before, the world's largest and most powerful telescope has managed to snap the most detailed photo of it yet.

M51 is a grand-design spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away from Earth and boasts very well-developed arms. ... In this new image of M51 taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

This image of the spiral galaxy M51 has been named the top James Webb Space Telescope image of 2023 by the public. A World Cup-style knockout poll on the Webb Telescope Twitter feed produced the ...

The M51 galaxy is called the Whirlpool due to its distinct spiral arms. (Supplied: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team) ...

The European Space Agency posted stunning, brand new images of the sprawling 'whirlpool galaxy' Messier 51 (M51) Tuesday, taken with the James Webb Space Telescope.

This 2011 image by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a face-on view of the spiral galaxy M51. It was, until now, the most detailed image of the Whirlpool galaxy.

This gives telescopes here a view of another spiral galaxy similar to our Milky Way, whose structure we cannot observe directly from our position within it. As with the Cat's Eye, the sonification ...

The galaxy is believed to be caught in a cosmic dance with its nearest neighbor, a dwarf galaxy known as NGC 5195. This nearest neighbor is also believed to be the cause of M51’s unique appearance.

Why it matters — M51-ULS-1b is the first exoplanet candidate astronomers have found orbiting a star in another galaxy; Di Stefano and her colleagues call it an “extroplanet.” “The search ...

Image caption, The M51 galaxy is located 27 million light years away from Earth. 1 September 2023. Updated 5 September 2023. The European Space Agency has released a new image of a distant ...