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Space Telescope Science Inst. (spacetelescope@astrodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2024 19:11:43 UTC Space Telescope Science Inst.

For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by #NASAWebb’s Near-Infrared Camera. In this stunning image of the Serpens Nebula, the discovery lies in the upper left of this image—a young, nearby star-forming region. (1/7) 🧵
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1. A rectangular image with black vertical rectangles at the bottle left and top right to indicate missing data. A young star-forming region is filled with wispy orange, red, and blue layers of gas and dust. The upper left corner of the image is filled with mostly orange dust, and within that orange dust, there are several small red plumes of gas that extend from the top left to the bottom right, at the same angle. The center of the image is filled with mostly blue gas. At the center, there is one particularly bright star, that has an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right of that is what looks a vertical eye-shaped crevice with a bright star at the center. The gas to the right of the crevice is a darker orange. Small points of light are sprinkled across the field, brightest sources in the field have extensive eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are characteristic of the Webb Telescope.
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