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February 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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This young star cluster shines like a kaleidoscope thanks to #NASAWebb’s near- and mid-infrared instruments. NGC 602 is in our neighboring dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA. 🔭 🧪
A star cluster shown inside a large nebula that has many colors of gas and dust. The material forms a circle of dark ridges and peaks surrounding the cluster, lit on the inner side, while layers of diffuse, translucent clouds blanket over them. Around and within the gas, a huge number of distant galaxies can be seen, some quite large, as well as a few stars nearer to us which are very large and bright. In the corners, the background of space is black.
December 3, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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Sometimes you just wanna...
December 3, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Legacy media.
December 3, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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JWST image of NGC 3596.
Processed NIRCam (white) + MIRI (red) data by @yuvharpaz.bsky.social
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A stunning infrared image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3596, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy's intricate spiral arms wind outwards from a bright central core, filled with countless stars. The image reveals a wealth of detail, including dark dust lanes and bright star-forming regions that glow in shades of red and pink.
December 3, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Hubble's sharpest view of the Orion Nebula
This stunning Hubble image offers the sharpest view of the Orion Nebula ever obtained. Created using 520 different Hubble exposures taken in multiple wavelengths of light, this mosaic contains over one billion pixels. Hubble imaged most of the nebula, but ground-based images were used to fill in the gaps in its observations. The orange color in the image can be attributed to hydrogen, green represents oxygen, and the red represents both sulfur and observations made in infrared light.
December 3, 2024 at 1:49 PM