Science & Exploration
NGC 602: Comparing Hubble's & Webb's view
This slider tool features two views of the young star cluster NGC 602, which resides near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy roughly 200 000 light-years from Earth.
The image on the left shows the cluster as seen by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope that was published in 2017.
The image on the right shows a new image of NGC 602 as seen by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
Hubble and Webb’s views of the Sombrero Galaxy
NGC 602 (Webb image)
Interacting galaxies Arp 142 (Hubble and Webb image)
NGC 602 (NIRCam and MIRI image)
