Webb’s Powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument Resolves Clumpy Nature of Dusty Disk Astronomers are known for their precision, but naming celestial objects isn’t exactly their forte. Take, for instance, HD 84406,

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken a detailed look at the Milky Way's monstrous young supercluster Westerlund 1.

The Sombrero galaxy, named for its resemblance to the Mexican hat, is about 30 million light-years from Earth.

A side-by-side comparison of the photo with its predecessor from the Hubble telescope shows how clearer the newer telescope is, allowing us to see the so-called “Sombrero galaxy" like never before.

FREE! NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured this stellar image of Messier 104 (M104), better known as the Sombrero galaxy. Located 30 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, the Sombrero galaxy was discovered in 1781 but given the nickname later due to its bright nucleus and symmetrical ring of dust clouds.

The James Webb Space Telescope may have broken another of its own records, finding potentially five of the earliest and most distant galaxies ever seen.

The Sombrero Galaxy, so named by scientists due to its resemblance to a Mexican hat, is located 30 million light-years from Earth. Thanks to new images from the space telescope, we can now take a closer look at its structure.