Sombrero Galaxy dazzles in new James Webb image

Probably personal taste, but I still like Hubble's image more, really gives the disk some depth, as opposed to the flatter MIRI image.

In the sibling photo in the index is a comparison of Hubble vs Webb.<p>Hubble is very brown-y, and Webb is much more blue.<p>But these are false colors, and they capture different light. It has to be an artistic decision to make it blue, vs brown, so does anyone here know the rationale? Is it to distinguish the different provenance? Is the color shift indicative of the captured spectrum difference? Is it a convention of the sensor? Is it a 2020s fad?

I looked up Triangulum on a lark, and learned:<p>&quot;Unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, the Triangulum Galaxy does not appear to have a supermassive black hole at its center. This may be because the mass of a galaxy&#x27;s central supermassive black hole correlates with the size of the galaxy&#x27;s central bulge, and unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda, the Triangulum Galaxy is a pure disk galaxy with no bulge.&quot;<p>Triangulum is a spiral galaxy in our local group, perhaps bound to Andromeda or us.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Triangulum_Galaxy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Triangulum_Galaxy</a>

At a rough 10 trillion kms = 1 light year, Sombrero galaxy is 31.1 million light years away, 1 quadrillion kms = 100 light years, 1 quintillion kms = 100,000 light years, 100 quintillion km = 10 million light years, so basically we are looking at an object 300 quintillion kms away At this fraction of light speed 0.99999999999999999999 to the person inside the spaceship only 1.6 days will pass. But to a person on earth, it would be 31.1 million light years. Crazy eh?

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Unrelated- but exists there a fast forward- projected position of the sky- as it would be actually toady? Like a rendered simulation without a million year timelag?

Just Wonderful. Though it looks a bit less like a sombrero this time. Might need to think about changing the name.

I wonder why galaxies tend to be shaped like a disc rather than a ball. Doesn&#x27;t really make sense to me.

I’m gonna be the grumpy old man here, but this is a marketing page. If there’s science going on here, it’s not even mentioned. Instead it’s all artist’s visualisations of infra-red data of an unusual galaxy. Is the galaxy of any scientific interest? I have no idea from the article whatsoever.

I see what you did there :-)

All galaxies are just space explosions