The James Webb Space Telescope took a picture of the Sombrero galaxy in high resolution.
This was reported on the website of the National Aeronautics and Space Studies (English National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sokr. NASA).
Using the Acting Acting Air Infrared Infrand Instrument, Miri), the cosmic telescope received a picture of the famous Sombrero galaxy in the infrared range.
The new image of Sombrero, which is also called Messier 104 (M104), has some differences from the picture obtained in the visible light with the Hubble space telescope in 2003, noted in NASA.
The characteristic luminous core, visible in the images in the visible light, does not look so bright here, but instead we are well distinguished by the inner disc.
The image also provided new information about the dense and uneven structure of the dust cloud in the external ring of the galaxy.
James Webba telescope allowed the first time to identify the complex cluster structure of the external ring of the galaxy, which on the images obtained by the Spitzer space telescope in 2005 looked smooth as a blanket.
Researchers noted that Miri discovered carbon -containing molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in a cloud of dust and this may indicate the presence of young stars of star formation.
Scientists also argue that in the Sombrero galaxy there are about 2000 ball accumulations, where hundreds of thousands of stars are held by gravity. Similar systems serve as astronomers as laboratories for studying the evolution of stars.
Sombrero or M104 Galaxy is located at a distance of about 30 million light years from the Earth in the constellation Virgo.