Imaging recource: Webb and PHANGS collaboration reveal incredible networks of gas and dust in nearby spiral galaxies

Researchers with the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) collaboration are performing the largest survey of nearby galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope. The research includes more than 100 international researchers and is led by Janice Lee, Gemini Observatory chief scientist at the US National Science Foundation's NOIRLab and an affiliate astronomer at the University of Arizona. The PHANGS collaboration is studying a sample of 19 spiral galaxies. So far, within Webb's first few months of...
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