See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison ...

Top row: galaxy Messier 82, the galaxy cluster Abell 2744, and the supernova remnant 1987A. Bottom row: the binary star system Eta Carinae, the Cartwheel galaxy, and the planetary nebula Helix Nebula.

The Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories have studied the Cartwheel, but accumulations of dust have obscured the galaxy's mysteries. Webb is an infrared telescope, viewing the light that ...

In the sprawling Hydra constellation, 137 million light-years away, lies NGC 3285B—a dazzling spiral galaxy recently spotlighted by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. This cosmic beauty orbits the ...