
The James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument, MIRI, zoomed in a spiral galaxy 32 million light years away to help a team of astronomers study the earliest stages of star formation, and the result is a surreal, gorgeous image of M74, also called the Phantom Galaxy. But these stunning images, and the data behind them, wouldn’t tell astronomers half as much without help from the Hubble Space Telescope.