It's 1 year since the launch of #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope.

Image is of the Galaxy #NGC7469, a spiral galaxy with a diameter of 90K ly. It's located at a distance of 220M ly from Earth.

The image was released on Dec 21, 2022.

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2212a/

Evan Gough - Webb’s New Image Reveals a Galaxy Awash in Star Formation:

https://www.universetoday.com/159350/webbs-new-image-reveals-a-galaxy-awash-in-star-formation/

#NGC7469 #SpiralGalaxy #SeyfertGalaxy #Galaxy #JamesWebb #Telescope #JWST #NIRCam #LuminousInfraredGalaxy #LIRG #ActiveGalacticNuclei #AGN #StarFormation #PolycyclicAromaticHydrocarbons #PAH #Astrophysics #Astronomy

Another one of our #jwstgoals #ers1328 galaxies -- #NGC7469 -- is now featured on the ESA blog as Picture of the Month 🤩

See Armus+22 for the detailed AGN spectrum; U+22 for the AGN outflow, Lai+22 for the dust grain sizes, and Bohn+22 for the young stars in the ring!

https://esawebb.org/images/potm2212a/

Thomas gave a really nice talk highlighting the PAHs and grain size distribution as a result of AGN ionization in #NGC7469! To learn more about this system, check out our papers on MIR AGN spectrum (Armus+22), highly ionized outflow (U+22), SF regions in the ring (Bohn+22), and ISM conditions (Bianchin+22, in prep). The spectral resolution improvement of #JWST #MIRI over #Spitzer is jaw-dropping!

Coming up soon (13:30 ET)
Thomas Lai will talk about AGN feedback in Seyfert galaxy #NGC7469 at the #JWSTFirstResults conference! In the mean time, I'd like to advertise posters by postdocs Thomas Bohn (NIRCam+MIRI imaging) and Marina Bianchin
(NIRSpec) - say hi! #jwstgoals

Achievement unlocked! ✅ Our #jwstgoals #ers1328 #NGC7469 paper is featured on #AASNova #astrobites -- my favorite external perspective of our #JWST study of AGN outflow 🤩

https://aasnova.org/2022/11/29/zooming-in-on-an-active-galactic-nucleus-outflow-with-jwst/

Our #JWST #GOALS paper on the circumnuclear gas dynamics in #NGC7469 just got published in ApJL!

https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ac961c

Here's the press release from #UCINews, but more interestingly, here's a brief thread about the paper itself - 1/

https://news.uci.edu/2022/11/14/uci-led-astronomers-capitalize-on-early-access-to-james-webb-space-telescope-data/

#Astrodon