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Probably personal taste, but I still like Hubble's image more, really gives the disk some depth, as opposed to the flatter MIRI image.

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You know the story about IR cameras that can see through clothes, it is mostly a myth but there is some truth to it as some clothes are transparent in infrared.

Same idea here, with the deeper IR Webb operates on, you get to see the galaxy "naked", which is great if you want to study its anatomy. But not everyone enjoys seeing naked galaxies.

Quick link to Hubble image:

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-...

It is interesting seeing past the central portion to see the complete rings on the back side. In the MIRI image, it looks like a special FX shot from some scifi where the explosion happens on a plane rather than a sphere.

There's also https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/videos/2024/137/01J... which shows Spitzer, Webb, Hubble with rotating images at the same image size.

i got nerd sniped and did the same thing myself. i could not find a way to blend the two images together that did anything interesting that the separate images did not do on their own. looks like they came to the same conclusion.

I thought the same about an old-vs-new comparison of the classic Pillars of Creation image, though on a second look they are both stunning in their own ways.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/052/01G...

The superposition and comparison of both images (exhibit B) is incredible how they got each background star exactly in the same place

How long did it take you to check the positions of all starts? :D

If you jigger the slider fast enough, persistence of vision will give you the answer pretty quickly.

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