JWST - NGC 7469 (with AGN) - NIRCam - Magnification and reconstruction via AI.

This is our version, via our artificial intelligence model, of the image provided by ESA/Webb. This composite image has as its main subject NGC 7469, a bright spiral galaxy about 90000 light years in diameter, 220 million light years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Pegasus. Part of the companion galaxy, IC 5283, can be glimpsed at lower left.

 

NGC 7469 was recently studied as part of the GOALS (Great Observatories All-sky LIRGs Survey) - ERS (Early Release Science) programs with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, projects that aim to study the physics of star formation and the growth of black holes.

 

NGC 7469 hosts an active galactic nucleus (AGN), an extremely bright central region dominated by light emitted by dust and gas falling into the galaxy's central black hole.

 

Using Webb's MIRI, NIRCam and NIRspec instruments to obtain images and spectra of NGC 7469 in unprecedented detail, the GOALS team discovered a number of details about the object. These include never-before-seen clusters of very young stars in formation and pockets of very hot, turbulent molecular gas.

 

The file is available at 896.07 million pixels for download at a resolution of 30000x29869pixels.

 

Map of wavelengths/colours:

 

1.5 μm blue;

2.0 μm light blue;

3.35 μm ochre yellow;

4.44 μm red.

 

Photo id: potm2212a

Type: Observation

Release Date: 21 December 2022, 10:00 UTC

 

Credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, L. Armus, A. S. Evans. PipploIMP for artificial intelligence magnification and reconstruction.

 

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