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James Webb Telescope captured spooky new image thousands of light-years away

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James Webb Telescope captured spooky new image thousands of light-years away

It’s about to be a very spooky Halloween in space. Scientists say they have found stars brewing inside a Halloween-like cosmic cauldron. Using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers captured a turbulent star-forming region known as N159. The region is located about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting our Milky … Read more

Telescope captures incredible image of a star being born — 1,300 light-years from Earth

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Telescope captures incredible image of a star being born — 1,300 light-years from Earth

A star is born — literally. An incredible image from the James Webb Space Telescope is providing new clues about how stars come into existence. The awe-inspiring snap shows protostar HH 212, located about 1,300 light-years from Earth. HH 212 was first discovered back in 1993, near the Belt of Orion, and astronomers have spent the … Read more