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00:03 The James Webb Space Telescope is at it again,
00:06 this time bringing us photos of not one, not two,
00:09 but 19 spiral galaxies residing in deep space.
00:13 The inner workings of spiral galaxies
00:15 are a great import to astronomers.
00:17 After all, the Milky Way where we live is one.
00:19 These images were all captured as part
00:21 of the Physics at Higher Angular Resolution in Nearby Galaxies
00:24 project.
00:25 The study is actually looking at 90 such galaxies,
00:28 hoping to get a better idea of how
00:30 they change and evolve over time.
00:32 And according to project scientists
00:33 for strategic initiatives at the Space Telescope Science
00:36 Institute, Janice Lee, quote, "They're
00:38 mind-blowing, even for researchers
00:40 who have studied these same galaxies for decades.
00:43 That's because these are the highest resolution images
00:45 of spiral galaxies ever captured,
00:47 showing what Lee says reveals bubbles and filaments
00:50 like never before."
00:52 Researchers say these photos tell
00:53 a story about the formation and life cycles of the galaxies,
00:57 revealing wild and diverse patterns of stars
00:59 clustered in different ways, which they add the galaxies
01:02 with pink and red diffraction spikes might even
01:04 point to the presence of supermassive black holes.
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