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Glowing dust in the center of NGC628 spiral galaxy (Photo: NASA \/ ESA \/ CSA \/ Judy Schmidt, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The team from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has only released a handful of official photos<\/a>, but that hasn’t stopped people from processing the raw data published by NASA. Judy Schmidt<\/a> has been working diligently to bring us some more jaw-dropping images by JWST. Schmidt has been processing raw space data for years, and her skills are evident in these gorgeous photos of spiral galaxies.<\/p>\n

Thanks to her handiwork, we can appreciate JWST’s views of three spiral galaxies\u2014NGC628, IC5332, and NGC7496. The images of NGC628 and IC5332 were created by processing data captured by the telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). NGC7496, instead, shows a combination of MIRI and Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) data.<\/p>\n

The spectacular results show the wisps of gas and dust in the galaxies in a manner that wasn’t previously possible. In fact, the impressive nature of JWST’s abilities is really brought into focus when matched up against images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. When compared, it’s easy to see just how much more we can see when viewing infrared images.<\/p>\n