The James Webb telescope captured an image of M51, a galaxy 27 million light-years away. The telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble and can take images in unprecedented detail.

The James Webb telescope captured an image of M51, a galaxy 27 million light-years away. The telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble and can take images in unprecedented detail. Astronomers ...

M51 — also known as NGC 5194 ... Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Back then, ESA estimated the galaxy was 25 million light-years away. But it's unclear ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) This image shows a magnified view of the magnificent spiral galaxy Messier 51 (M51), dubbed the Whirlpool Galaxy. Credit: NASA ...

It takes an instrument with some real observing power to see the 76,900 light-year-wide galaxy M51 in its full glory, however. For instance, when astronomers looked at M51 with the Hubble Space ...

This 2011 image by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a face-on view of the spiral galaxy M51. It was, until now, the most detailed image of the Whirlpool galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, S.

Astronomers may have discovered a planet in a distant galaxy. Astronomers identified the possible exoplanet, M51-ULS-1b ... supergiant star that appears in Hubble Space Telescope images.

Hubble zooms in on the glittering galaxy next door Astronomy Space photo of the week: Cotton candy clouds shine in one of Hubble's most beautiful images ever Astronomy Space photo of the week ...