Webb Telescope , Sheds Light , on the Early Universe.<br />Gizmodo reports that NASA's Webb <br />Space Telescope has taken aim at <br />the barred spiral galaxy EGS23205. .<br />The distant galaxy will reportedly increase <br />our understanding of the young universe and <br />how the first stars and galaxies took form.<br />Previously, NASA's Hubble Telescope also captured images <br />of the galaxy. However, Webb's sharper images reveal <br />a stellar bar reaching out from the galactic center. .<br />The bars hardly visible in Hubble data <br />just popped out in the JWST image, showing <br />the tremendous power of JWST to see <br />the underlying structure in galaxies, Shardha Jogee, astronomer at UT Austin <br />and co-author of the research, via Gizmodo.<br />A stellar bar is a massive galactic <br />cross-section of countless stars, which <br />plays a crucial role in galactic evolution. .<br />They help to push gas toward the galaxy's <br />center, fueling star formation and feeding <br />the central supermassive black hole. .<br />The Webb Telescope has been targeting some of <br />the earliest galaxies ever seen, which appear as they <br />were several hundred million years after the Big Bang.<br />The images captured of EGS23205 <br />are snapshots of the galaxy <br />about 11 billion years ago. .<br />In October, NASA's new $10 billion observatory captured images of the Pillars of Creation, massive plumes of dust and gas found in the Eagle Nebula.<br />The same month, Webb produced an image <br />of merging galaxies approximately <br />270 million light-years away from Earth.
