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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a highly detailed snapshot of the so-called Pillars of Creation. 9News

The area, which lies within the Eagle Nebula about 6,500 light-years from Earth, had previously been captured by the Hubble TelescopeThe fact that new stars are brewing within the eerie columns of cosmic dust and gas is what earned the area its name.The Webb telescope used its Near-Infrared Camera, also called NIRCam, to give astronomers a new, closer look at the region, glimpsing"Newly formed protostars are the scene-stealers," the European Space Agency said in a release.

The star system, called WR140, includes a Wolf-Rayet star and a blue supergiant star swirling around one another in an orbit that takes eight years to complete. Researchers observed the plumes to measure how starlight can impact matter for their study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. "WR140 is a binary star whose ferocious radiation field supercharges these effects, placing them within reach of our high-precision data."The Milky Way galaxy has a graveyard of dead stars that stretches three times the height of the galaxy, according to new research.

The very supernova explosions that triggered the collapse of the stars actually kicked them out into interstellar space. Glowing blue and purple x-rays can now be seen in newly released versions of four images that combine Chandra's data with Webb's infrared data. The Webb telescope is able to see through the dust to the patterns of gas that guide the galaxy's basic structure, unfurling in the void.NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has shown Neptune, the ice giant, in a whole new light.NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI"It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we've seen them in the infrared," notes Heidi Hammel, a Neptune system expert and interdisciplinary scientist for Webb.

A lack of gas in the nuclear region also provides an unobscured view of the nuclear star cluster at the galaxy's centre - they "eye" of it all.Another view of the Phantom Galaxy, this time put together from both Webb and its iconic predecessor Hubble.17 of 86The world's newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all.

"We've never seen Jupiter like this. It's all quite incredible," said planetary astronomer Imke de Pater, of the University of California, Berkeley, who helped lead the observations.International Gemini ObservatoryA new telescope image showcases two entangled galaxies that will eventually merge into a single elliptical galaxy about 500 million years from now.

 

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