#JamesWebbSpaceTelescope's new photo of the Tarantula Nebula caught thousands of never-before-seen baby stars
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Astronomers focused the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope on Tarantula Nebula, one of the brightest and most active star-forming regions in our galactic backyard, and found thousands of young stars they hadn't seen before, images released by NASA on Tuesday show.
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The Tarantula Nebula, is an immense cloud of gas and dust about 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the #MilkyWay. The nebula has birthed some massive stars, a few that are more than 150 times the mass of our sun.
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To find out more about this stellar birthplace, astronomers trained three of #Webb's high-resolution infrared instruments on it. By gathering infrared light, the telescope is able to cut through cosmic gas and dust, penetrating deeper into the cosmos.
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#Webb's new image of the nebula taken with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), above, shows strands of gas that look like spider webs, "a burrowing tarantula's home, lined with its silk," according to @NASA.
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The image shows distant galaxies in the background that look like fuzzy white dots. A cluster of massive young stars can be seen at the center of the image in sparkling blue. The space around the young stars is where gas has been cleared out by the stars' intense radiation.
Astronomers looked at the same region in longer infrared wavelengths detected by #Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). In the right image below, "the hot stars fade, and the cooler gas and dust glow," NASA said.
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Using #Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph, astronomers also caught an emerging star being released from a cocoon of dust. When nascent stars form inside nebula, they are surrounded by cocoon-like pillars of gas and dust, which block visible light.
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