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🆕 Our ESA/Webb Picture of the Month sees stars brewing in a cosmic cauldron ⭐🔮 This is the star-forming region LHA 120-N 159 (N159), which is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It is what astronomers call a H II region: an area of space filled with ionised hydrogen gas. 1/3
A nebula made of clouds of gas and dust with stars forming within. In the centre and out to the left it is filled with thin, wispy blue gas that forms delicate layers. Around this are thicker orange clouds with dark ridges. Thin red filaments of gas cross the centre of the nebula. Glowing bubbles in the gas contain dense, very bright clusters of stars. In the edges, distant stars are visible as bright points on a dark background.

ALT A nebula made of clouds of gas and dust with stars forming within. In the centre and out to the left it is filled with thin, wispy blue gas that forms delicate layers. Around this are thicker orange clouds with dark ridges. Thin red filaments of gas cross the centre of the nebula. Glowing bubbles in the gas contain dense, very bright clusters of stars. In the edges, distant stars are visible as bright points on a dark background.

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Here, hot young stars are carving into the gas around them with fierce ultraviolet winds 🌬️ the resulting ridges and cavities are captured in marvellous detail in this image from the #NIRCam on board Webb. 2/3
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At less than three million years old, N159 is one of the youngest star-forming regions of the LMC 👶✨ containing thousands of stars at their earliest stages of formation! Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2610a… #WebbSeesFarther 📷 @ESA / @esa_webb , @NASA , @csa_asc , E. Sabbi, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç 3/3

Stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron

Stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron

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🛎️ It's quiz time! Astronomers using Webb to investigate the star IRS 3 found that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to a supermassive black hole.
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2/ With which of Webb’s instruments was this view captured?
30%NIRSpec
35%NIRCam
35%MIRI
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3. The correct answer is c) MIRI. This produced the most detailed mid-infrared view of the IRS 3 field yet! Read more: esawebb.org/news/weic2617/ 📷 @ESA / @esa_webb , @NASA & @csa_asc , F. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chan

Webb reveals dust and water surviving in the extreme environment around the Milky Way’s central...

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to the supermassive black hole at...

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🛎️ It's quiz time! This starry view of the nearby star-forming region IC 348 🌟 is one of the largest Webb images shared with the public yet!
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2/ It was captured in the search for what type of object?
44%Brown dwarf
13%Super-Jupiter
44%Earth-like exoplanet
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3. The correct answer is a) Brown dwarf. The search revealed brown dwarfs with just twice the mass of Jupiter! Read more: esawebb.org/images/weic2619a… 📷 @ESA / @esa_webb , @NASA & @csa_asc , K. Luhman, C. Alves De Oliveira, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)
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A burst from deep in the distant Universe! And check out more .gifs at our giphy page: ow.ly/YCpN50ZWe8b
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Journey into a technicolour dreamscape with Webb! Our destination is the stellar nursery NGC 7129, which contains numerous protostars and stars within its fields of gas and dust. Webb captured infrared light, which pierces through this matter that scatters or absorbs other types of light, revealing the sparkling stellar objects within the nebula ✨ 1/2
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#WebbSeesFarther 📷 @ESA / @esa_webb , @NASA & @csa_asc , WIYN and NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, DSS2, A. Pagan (STScI), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, T. A. Rector, H. Schweiker, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) 🎶 Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs. com) 2/2
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Staring into the stellar nursery NGC 7129 with Webb! Check out more .gifs at our giphy page: ow.ly/Ckwe50ZVJ4l
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🆕 Webb has found the origin of the farthest fast radio burst yet! Fast radio bursts (FRBs) 💥 are mysterious, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant Universe. 1/3
A field full of small galaxies of all shapes against the blackness of space. A few bright white stars show 8 prominent diffraction spikes. A small galaxy at lower right is highlighted with a white box. A shaded triangle extends upward to the corners of a larger box showing a zoom in of the region. Two fuzzy, light blue blobs are at centre, with a larger and brighter one at top. Just above the top blob is a white crosshair showing the location where a fast radio burst was detected.

ALT A field full of small galaxies of all shapes against the blackness of space. A few bright white stars show 8 prominent diffraction spikes. A small galaxy at lower right is highlighted with a white box. A shaded triangle extends upward to the corners of a larger box showing a zoom in of the region. Two fuzzy, light blue blobs are at centre, with a larger and brighter one at top. Just above the top blob is a white crosshair showing the location where a fast radio burst was detected.

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In 2024, astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope spotted an FRB which appeared extremely distant – perhaps more than any other yet discovered. With help from Webb, the FRB was confirmed to have originated 3 billion years after the Big Bang, in a surprisingly small and young galaxy. 2/3
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This has implications for the origin of FRBs. They are unlikely to come from the merger of neutron stars (associated with older galaxies) as one theory suggested. They may, however, come from a type of neutron star known as a magnetar 🧲⭐ which can form in younger galaxies. Read more: esawebb.org/news/weic2621/ #WebbSeesFarther 📷 @NASA , @ESA , @csa_asc , STScI, T. Nanayakkara (USYD). Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) 3/3

Webb measures distance to farthest fast radio burst, suggesting origin - Record breaker dates back...

First discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio emission from the distant Universe. Their origin remains uncertain, particularly since most are seen once...

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🛎️ It's quiz time! Webb caught the Lion Nebula 🦁 roaring to life in this #NIRCam and #MIRI image.
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2/ What type of star is at the centre of the nebula?
18%Protostar
37%White dwarf
45%Neutron star
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3. The correct answer is b) White dwarf. This is ‘cooking’ everything from the inside out, producing a bubble of ionised gas as it does (the lion’s face). Read more: esawebb.org/news/weic2616/ 📷 @NASA , @ESA , @csa_asc , STScI. Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI).

Lion Nebula roars to life for Webb

Observing across the starry “plains” of space, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has taken images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula.

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In the 2026 ESA/Hubble and ESA/Webb calendar, the month of October features the flocculent spiral galaxy NGC 5335. It has patchy streamers of star formation across its disc 🌟 and a bar structure slicing across its centre! Ready to print .pdf here: esahubble.org/products/calen… 📷 @NASA , @ESA , STScl
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