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Webb’s Take on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Provides New Window Into the Cosmos

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James Webb Space Telescope Hubble Ultra Deep Field Image

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope gives us a stunning new view of one of astronomy’s most famous patches of darkness that we call the sky. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field showed nearly 10,000 galaxies in one frame and has been the gold standard for understanding the distant past of the universe. Now, Webb has turned … Read more

Webb’s New NGC 6072 Images Are a Window into Stellar Endings, a Cosmic Farewell of Sorts

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James Webb Space Telescope NGC 6072

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has trained its sights on NGC 6072, a planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpius, and the results are a star’s last breath. These near- and mid-infrared images show a multi-lobed cloud of gas and dust that hint at the complex processes of a star’s demise. NGC 6072, about 3,000 light-years … Read more