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While our Sun was born almost five billion years ago, there are brand new stars forming today. Within our Milky…
The universe is full of clues hidden in light — and Webb has tools to find them. About 75% of…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has “supercharged” what astronomers know about star formation with its sharp near- and mid-infrared observations.…
This animation shows how massive stars, which form in super cold molecular clouds over millions of years, actively influence their…
Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered so far, prompting an abundance of questions about these distant worlds that orbit stars…
This scientific visualization explores the iconic Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16 or M16) and the various…
This video tours the Serpens Nebula, a star-forming region that lies 1,300 light-years away from Earth. A new image of…
This video tours Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). NIRCam’s high resolution detects tiny…
This video tours the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant that lies 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Despite this…
