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JWST Delivers Insights Into How The Southern Nebula Was CarvedThe image is split down the middle, showing two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. Both feature black backgrounds speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies. Both show the planetary nebula as a misshapen oval that is slightly angled from top left to bottom right and takes up the majority of each image. At left, the near-infrared image shows a bright white star at the center with long diffraction spikes. Large, transparent teal and orange ovals, which are shells ejected by the unseen central star, surround it. At right, the mid-infrared image shows two stars at the center very close to one another. The one at left is red, the smaller one at right is light blue. The blue star has tiny triangles around it. A large transparent red oval surrounds the central stars. From that extend shells in a mix of colors, which are red to the left and right and teal to the top and bottom. Overall, the oval shape of the planetary nebula appears slightly smaller than the one seen at left.

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JWST Delivers Insights Into How The Southern Nebula Was CarvedThe image is split down the middle, showing two views of the Southern Ring Nebula. Both feature black backgrounds speckled with tiny bright stars and distant galaxies. Both show the planetary nebula as a misshapen oval that is slightly angled from top left to bottom right and takes up the majority of each image. At left, the near-infrared image shows a bright white star at the center with long diffraction spikes. Large, transparent teal and orange ovals, which are shells ejected by the unseen central star, surround it. At right, the mid-infrared image shows two stars at the center very close to one another. The one at left is red, the smaller one at right is light blue. The blue star has tiny triangles around it. A large transparent red oval surrounds the central stars. From that extend shells in a mix of colors, which are red to the left and right and teal to the top and bottom. Overall, the oval shape of the planetary nebula appears slightly smaller than the one seen at left.
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JWST Delivers Insights Into How The Southern Nebula Was Carved

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Orion's Belt: What Is It and How To See ItThe stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka and the horse head and flame nebulae are visible in the center of the image.

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Orion's Belt: What Is It and How To See ItThe stars Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka and the horse head and flame nebulae are visible in the center of the image.
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Orion's Belt: What Is It and How To See It

clock-iconDecember 2, 2022
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JWST Reveals Previously Hidden “Undiscovered Country” Of Early GalaxiesTwo fields full of galaxies and zoomed in are the two galaxies in questions. very little details are clear in the single galaxy images.

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JWST Reveals Previously Hidden “Undiscovered Country” Of Early GalaxiesTwo fields full of galaxies and zoomed in are the two galaxies in questions. very little details are clear in the single galaxy images.
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JWST Reveals Previously Hidden “Undiscovered Country” Of Early Galaxies

clock-iconNovember 17, 2022
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Strength Of The Electromagnetic Force In Stars Found With Highest Precision YetA series of rows going from deep red on the top to deep violet at the bottom, with some vertical dark lines.

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Strength Of The Electromagnetic Force In Stars Found With Highest Precision YetA series of rows going from deep red on the top to deep violet at the bottom, with some vertical dark lines.
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Strength Of The Electromagnetic Force In Stars Found With Highest Precision Yet

clock-iconNovember 10, 2022
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Oldest Remains Of Planets In Milky Way Discovered, And They're NearbyOn the foreground there are asteroid looking planetary debris and the two white dwarfs are in the background as an exageerated blue and red colour

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Oldest Remains Of Planets In Milky Way Discovered, And They're NearbyOn the foreground there are asteroid looking planetary debris and the two white dwarfs are in the background as an exageerated blue and red colour
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Oldest Remains Of Planets In Milky Way Discovered, And They're Nearby

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Record-Breaking Closest Black Hole To Earth DiscoveredA concept art of a big bright yellow star and in the near background a black hole

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Record-Breaking Closest Black Hole To Earth DiscoveredA concept art of a big bright yellow star and in the near background a black hole
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Record-Breaking Closest Black Hole To Earth Discovered

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Why There Are No Green StarsNGC 4755 is known as the Jewel Box for the brightly colored stars it contains, but none of them are green. Image Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky - ESO

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Why There Are No Green StarsNGC 4755 is known as the Jewel Box for the brightly colored stars it contains, but none of them are green. Image Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky - ESO
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Why There Are No Green Stars

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JWST Sees Extraordinary Shells Around Stars Caused By Light Accelerating DustThe image show a star surrounded by a series of semi-circular shells that get fainter and fainter

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JWST Sees Extraordinary Shells Around Stars Caused By Light Accelerating DustThe image show a star surrounded by a series of semi-circular shells that get fainter and fainter
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JWST Sees Extraordinary Shells Around Stars Caused By Light Accelerating Dust

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"Cataclysmic" Pair Of Stars With Shortest Known Orbit DiscoveredGiant stellar explosion involving a white dwarf star around a giant red star

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"Cataclysmic" Pair Of Stars With Shortest Known Orbit DiscoveredGiant stellar explosion involving a white dwarf star around a giant red star
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"Cataclysmic" Pair Of Stars With Shortest Known Orbit Discovered

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Story Of The "Seven Sisters" Unfolds Across Enormous Ancient Australian Rock Art SiteThis panel of Marra Wonga near Barcladine, Queensland features seven star-like designs clustered in three rows interpreted by Aboriginal community members as representations of the Seven Sisters, while engravings around them fill in the story.

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Story Of The "Seven Sisters" Unfolds Across Enormous Ancient Australian Rock Art SiteThis panel of Marra Wonga near Barcladine, Queensland features seven star-like designs clustered in three rows interpreted by Aboriginal community members as representations of the Seven Sisters, while engravings around them fill in the story.
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Story Of The "Seven Sisters" Unfolds Across Enormous Ancient Australian Rock Art Site

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Rare Spectacular Comet Wins Top Prize At Astronomy Photographer Of The YearBright blue comet streaking through the starry sky with a gas tail

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Rare Spectacular Comet Wins Top Prize At Astronomy Photographer Of The YearBright blue comet streaking through the starry sky with a gas tail
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Rare Spectacular Comet Wins Top Prize At Astronomy Photographer Of The Year

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Stunning New JWST Image Show The Intricate Shells Of An Aged StarWR 140 as seen by JWST. Asymettric ripples are visible around the six spokes artifacts created by the telescope

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Stunning New JWST Image Show The Intricate Shells Of An Aged StarWR 140 as seen by JWST. Asymettric ripples are visible around the six spokes artifacts created by the telescope
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Stunning New JWST Image Show The Intricate Shells Of An Aged Star

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The Most Distant Known Single Star Is Probably Two – And They Are Hot!Zoomed in and annotated JWST image of Earendel. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Cosmic Spring JWST

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The Most Distant Known Single Star Is Probably Two – And They Are Hot!Zoomed in and annotated JWST image of Earendel. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Cosmic Spring JWST
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The Most Distant Known Single Star Is Probably Two – And They Are Hot!

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This Is The Best Ever Image Of The Heaviest Star In The Known UniverseThe heaviest known star as seen in the new observations.

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This Is The Best Ever Image Of The Heaviest Star In The Known UniverseThe heaviest known star as seen in the new observations.
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This Is The Best Ever Image Of The Heaviest Star In The Known Universe

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Check The Full Hubble Wispy View From Inside The Orion NebulaHH 505 in the Orion Nebula Seen by Hubble. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç

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Check The Full Hubble Wispy View From Inside The Orion NebulaHH 505 in the Orion Nebula Seen by Hubble. Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç
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Check The Full Hubble Wispy View From Inside The Orion Nebula

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