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Space Telescope Science Inst. (spacetelescope@astrodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jul-2023 11:09:57 UTC Space Telescope Science Inst.

Happy first anniversary, #NASAWebb! One year after beginning science operations, Webb is celebrating with a highly detailed image of the closest star-forming region to Earth. Peer deeper in the cloud: https://webbtelescope.pub/3JUoBTA
#JWST #astronomy #space
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1. Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom center, tilted toward 2 o’clock, with a bright star at its center. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward 8 o’clock. Above the arched top of the cave 3 groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the dark cloud. The image’s largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. At the top center of the image, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, vertically. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region.
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