NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently captured an image of barred spiral galaxy, classified as NGC 1559, that some may consider a galactic treasury. It’s located 35 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Reticulum (The Reticule).
Data used to compile this portrait come from two of Webb’s instruments: the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) and Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). The former captures the glow of interstellar dust grains, while NIRCam shows the light from stars and also captures emission from ionised nebulae around young stars.
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NGC 1559 has massive spiral arms that abound with star formation, and it is receding from us at a speed of about 1300 kilometres per second. Although NGC 1559 appears to sit near one of our nearest neighbours in the sky — the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – this is just a trick of perspective. In reality, NGC 1559 is physically nowhere near the LMC in space; in fact it truly is a loner, lacking the company of any nearby galaxies or membership of any galaxy cluster,” said the European Space Agency.
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