A fresh image based on brand-new deep-space data appears to show a wormhole spinning before our very eyes.
The appropriately named “Phantom Galaxy” glows eerily in a new image by Judy Schmidt based on James Webb Space Telescope data collected nearly a million miles away from our planet using the observatory’s mid-infrared instrument (MIRI).
“I’ve been doing this for 10 years now, and [Webb] data is new, different, and exciting,” Schmidt told Space.com. “Of course I’m going to make something with it.”
The image highlights the dust lanes in the galaxy, which is more properly known as NGC 628 or Messier 74. Dubbed the “perfect spiral” by some astronomers because the galaxy is so symmetrical, the Phantom Galaxy is scientifically interesting because of the intermediate-mass black hole scientists believe is embedded at its heart.
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