Webb spent three days photographing one beautiful galactic mess
Space remains the undefeated champion of making human problems look like sand on a beach.
The Cigar Galaxy is a cosmic mess: warped, dusty, furiously making stars, and apparently photogenic enough that Webb stared at it for nearly three days and produced a 223-megapixel glamour shot.
The new image combines Webb’s ability to peer through dust with Hubble’s view of glowing gas and dusty structure. The result is less “space photo” than “cosmic a…
