The James Webb Space Telescope, which will soon succeed Hubble, has captured some stunning images of a neighbouring satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.

JWST primary mirror is made up of 18 hexagonal gold-plated beryllium mirror segments that together form a 6.5-meter (21-foot) diameter mirror, compared to Hubble's 2.4 m. (7.9 ft).

This telescope has a light-collecting area of around 25 square metres, which is roughly 6 times that of Hubble Telescope.

JWST has captured some stunning images of a neighboring satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.

According to NASA, the new visuals feature the small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)- and the quality of Webb's images far outweighs that of the now-retired Spitzer telescope.

The new images are taken by the JWST's MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument), that features light from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech 

Spitzer

JWST

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI 

The Spitzer Space Telescope  Vs  The James Webb Space Telescope the results are spectacular.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (left), NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (right)

The Webb telescope has larger primary mirror than Spitzer Space Telescope and improved detectors to see the infrared sky with even more clarity.

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