00:03this is galaxy m51 better known as the whirlpool galaxy and it's not hard to see why the spectacular
00:10cosmic body lies some 31 million light years away but due to its intensity it offers some
00:15of the best views in the sky even for amateur sky gazers but this image wasn't captured by
00:20amateur instrumentation it was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope the telescope used
00:26its near-infrared camera and the mid-infrared instrument to reveal the intricacies of the
00:31spiral galaxy like never before and a side-by-side with a previous photo taken by the Hubble telescope
00:36really highlights that fact experts say the glowing areas around the swirl are where stars are formed
00:41with the orange and yellow being the ionized gas byproduct of that formation experts believe that
00:46the spiral of the whirlpool galaxy is so prominent due to another nearby galaxy NGC 5195 they believe
00:53that while it's much smaller than m51 it has enough gravity to tug on its spiraled arms stretching them
00:58out further than they would otherwise astrophysicists believe this type of interplay also has a direct
01:03impact on stellar feedback or the release of stellar energy out into the universe and the further
01:08production of stars
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