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Spitzer vs JWST in infrared

Spitzer vs JWST in infrared
Spitzer vs JWST in infrared The team behind NASA’s JWST mission has released a teaser image of just how powerful this new space telescope is. The two pictures shown here are of the same part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way with dense star fields. On the left, you see an infrared image taken by NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera. On the right, the dramatically crisper image taken by JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument. NASA/JPL-Caltech (left), NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI (right)