The sumptuous "Ghost Galaxy" in the eye of the James Webb telescope.
The European Space Agency and NASA have released a new photo taken by the James Webb Telescope, showing the Phantom Galaxy, located about 32 million light-years from Earth.
The James Webb space Telescope has captured new details of a galaxy, known as the Phantom, in a spectacular image showing its spiral shape published by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Nasa.
Launched into space at the end of 2021 and operational since July, James Webb has since revealed impressive images of Jupiter, nebulae and other distant galaxies, providing scientists with a lot of new data to analyze.
Ghost Galaxy
The one published on Monday, August 29 shows M74, or the Phantom Galaxy, its bright blue heart and its impeccable spiral, observed by the MIRI instrument, which studies the mid-infrared and is the result of a collaboration between Europeans and Americans.
"Webb's piercing gaze revealed fine filaments of gas and dust in the spiral-shaped luminous arms that unfold from the center of this image," notes ESA on its website, which specifies that the galaxy had already been observed by the mythical Hubble space Telescope, launched in 1990 and still in operation.
The European agency, which co-developed the telescope with NASA, also notes that a "lack of gas" makes it possible to have a clearer vision of the stars in the center of the galaxy, located about 32 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces.
Ghost Galaxy data
The data collected "will allow astronomers to identify the regions of the galaxy where stars are forming, measure with finesse the mass and age of star clusters and better know the nature of the small dust grains that drift in interstellar space," notes ESA.
An engineering jewel worth $10 billion, the James Webb Telescope conducts its observations 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.
It has, for the first time, detected the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, that is to say a planet outside our solar system, researchers announced last week.
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It was only when African countries began to experience strong growth in the late 2000s and early 2010s, thanks to Chinese and Indian investments, that Japan realized that it was missing a train to which it had nevertheless hooked the first car.
It was from that moment that the Japanese government began to insist more and more on the investments of Japanese companies in Africa. "Since the accession of Shinzo Abe to the post of Prime Minister [in 2012, editor's note], Japan has become very strong in talking about public-private cooperation to encourage companies to invest in Africa," notes Kweku Ampiah.
A proactive speech that made some say that Japan was trying to shadow China in Africa, emphasizes Daisuke Akimoto, a political scientist at Meiji University in Tokyo, in an op-ed published by The Diplomat website. After all, Japan adopted the three-year pace for its summit "at the request of African countries who said that this is how China was doing," notes Kweku Ampiah in an op-ed published by the South African Daily Maverick newspaper. Tokyo has also agreed to hold its summit in African countries... just like China did. Until 2016, these conferences to promote development in Africa were systematically held in the Japanese capital.
However, the idea that Africa is the new terrain for a battle of influence between Japan and China seems to Kweku Ampiah little credible. "No Japanese politician believes in it. Japan has absolutely no means to compete with China," he summarizes.
There are only a little more than 500 Japanese companies present in Africa and 70% of investments are focused on South Africa. Nothing to do with the approximately 2,500 Chinese companies located all over the African continent.
In fact, there again seems to be a discrepancy between the Japanese announcements and reality. "Some of the African interlocutors think that the Japanese talk a lot but act little," notes Kweku Ampiah. In other words, promises of billions of dollars in investment do not always come true.
That is why this specialist is cautious about the announcements of the eighth Ticad. "Let's wait and see how these promises translate into reality," he concludes. Perhaps this is a real turning point in the Japanese approach to Africa, or it will be a new missed appointment. The last one? In the influential Japanese business daily Nihon Keizai Shinbun, a columnist wrote in June 2022 that some close to the government wanted to draw a definitive line on Ticads.
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