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Like a sprawling celestial nautilus located 32 million light-years from Earth, spiral galaxy NGC 628 provides clues to how star formation occurs, and galaxies evolve. Captured in unprecedented detail by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) in 2022, this and other images of spiral galaxies help scientists investigate the star formation cycle in galaxies on an unprecedented new scale and provide valuable new clues to the origins of our universe.

The giant spiral arms in the image show extended regions of gas and dust that appear red and orange. Scientists have noted that the structure of this spiral galaxy is repeated elsewhere in the universe, following similar wave patterns. Studying a variety of spiral galaxies will provide key insights about how galaxies build, maintain, and shut off star formation.