Rest easy, Captain. We have the helm. ✨ This is Webb’s look at Westerlund 1, a super star cluster. Because our galaxy is past its peak of star formation, and because stars live relatively short lives, only a few of these clusters exist to give us clues to that past era.

NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 1 天前

Rest easy, Captain. We have the helm. ✨ This is Webb’s look at Westerlund 1, a super star cluster.…

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Happy Halloween! 👻 Like a spectral form rising out of a cold mist, @NASAHubble and Webb have captured a hauntingly dynamic star-forming scene, which lies within the vast Carina Ne…
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Pspspsp! Just in time for Halloween, NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes recently stared at an eerie star-forming scene within the Carina Nebula, a massive gas and dust…
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Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble 🧙‍♀️ This turbulent cauldron of star formation, N159, resides about 161,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic…
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Fast radio bursts (FRBs) - enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant universe - were first discovered in 2007. Their origins are difficult to pinpoint…
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Brewing up new stars 🪄 Webb’s unique view of the stellar nursery known as NGC 7129 reveals numerous stars formerly hidden in this cosmic cauldron, helping astronomers study the st…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 2026-10-06
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They say planet formation’s a cruel endeavor Violent collisions, like that between a proto-Earth and a Mars-sized object named Theia 4.5 billion years ago, shaped our home planet.…
NASA Webb Telescope @NASAWebb · 2026-10-01

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