The James Webb Space Telescope finds a dusty skeleton in the closet of this starburst galaxy

Dwarf galaxy NGC 4449 is the star of the show The James Webb Space Telescopehis latest cosmic portrait.

Located 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici, the Hunting Dogs, NGC 4449 has a lot in common with our own. Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), orbiting satellite galaxy Milky Way. Both are small and irregular in shape and each has a distinct band running through its center. However, while the LMC has an extreme region of star formation, which is the 30 Doradus region known famously as the Tarantula. NebulaNGC 4449 has been upgraded STAR– the formation of norms in its length and breadth. Indeed, there is so much star formation going on that NGC 4449 is described as undergoing a “starburst”.

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