{"id":573690,"date":"2026-05-08T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573690\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:35:09","slug":"nasas-webb-telescope-reveals-a-spiral-galaxys-brilliant-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/573690\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Webb telescope reveals a spiral galaxy&#8217;s brilliant heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A spiral galaxy\u2019s brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/james-webb-telescope-first-photos-32c7cad1f6b277f871990d029bedba72\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA\u2019s Webb Space Telescope<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The image released this week depicts the Messier 77 galaxy 45 million light-years away in the Cetus, or whale, constellation. A <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/black-hole-jets-star-cygnus-ea0e02e81081889ae9262e7a25b7fda9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">light year<\/a> is about 6 trillion miles.<\/p>\n<p>The galaxy\u2019s active nucleus is powered by a supermassive <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supermassive-black-hole-flare-space-1f84ba1dc0b7624ce9fc9b81448aa017\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">black hole<\/a> that\u2019s 8 million times more massive than the sun. Surrounding gas is sucked into a tight orbit around the black hole, becoming so hot that it radiates in the extreme. Webb\u2019s mid-infrared instrument captured the stunning details. <\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s largest and most powerful space telescope has been photographing the cosmos since <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/space-launches-science-business-galaxies-south-america-62f824158febc33fa1dd437fc0ed5b33\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launching in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A spiral galaxy\u2019s brilliant heart outshines everything within sight in a new picture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[7795,1813,232,9027,90,416,7794,42872,86,6943,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-573690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","tag-astronomy","tag-general-news","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration","tag-space-launches","tag-technology","tag-u-s-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}