By our powers combined... 🔭⁣ This swirly, sparkly cosmic object is the Pinwheel Galaxy. Our Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope teamed up to provide this view, which highlights the heart of the galaxy. The giant spiral disk of stars, dust, and gas is 25 million light-years away from us, making it the closest "face-on" spiral galaxy to Earth. "Face-on" means that we can directly see the distinctive central bulge of stars and spiral arms.⁣ The Pinwheel Galaxy is 170,000 light-years across — nearly twice the diameter of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The galaxy’s spiral arms are sprinkled with large regions of star-forming nebulae; astronomers estimate that it contains at least one trillion stars.⁣ Image description: A close-up view shows a galaxy’s bright, yellow center, surrounded by patches of glowing orange-brown dust and pink stars.⁣ Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts - Amherst), C. Clark (Space Telescope Science Institute - ESA - JWST...