Astronomers have found 102 galaxies tucked into the Milky Way's zone of avoidance, a part of the sky usually hidden by thick dust, using NIRCam images of the nebula NGC 3324 from the Webb telescope
Astronomers have found 102 galaxies tucked into the Milky Way's zone of avoidance, a part of the sky usually hidden by thick dust, using NIRCam images of the nebula NGC 3324 from the Webb telescope
The sample includes four spiral galaxies, two disk galaxies, a lenticular galaxy and an elliptical galaxy, plus a compact group of seven objects at redshifts ~0.3–0.4.
Several of these were detected behind the densest regions of the molecular cloud, a region that had been unreachable even for previous infrared surveys