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Into a nebulous cauldron in the Large Magellanic Cloud! ⭐🔮

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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: https://t.co/v3FNPQpYvu

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Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç 3/3

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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

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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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3. The correct answer is c) MIRI. This produced the most detailed mid-infrared view of the IRS 3 field yet!

Read more: https://t.co/AMLw5nVd6m

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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?

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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: https://t.co/0yDTvtOf3O

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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?

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A burst from deep in the distant Universe!

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🎶 Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs. com) 2/2

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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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Webb’s filters restrict the light reaching its detector to specific wavelengths mainly in the infrared, rather than visible, part of the spectrum. These raw frames are sent back to Earth for combining, cleaning, and colourising, using a technique very similar to that used to create the first colour photographs. While this produces beautiful and scientifically valuable images, they do not match what would be seen with the unaided eye.

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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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@CosyFuturism These environments appear to be rare, with roughly only 1% of young stars studied so far showing observable signatures of this phase.

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🆕 This crash course on planet-shattering collisions is brought to you from Webb 🌏💥

Long ago, a Mars-sized object, Theia, smashed into Earth, vaporising massive amounts of rock 🪨♨️ and blasting it into space. Now, Webb has turned its attention to stellar systems that show signs of similar upheavals: extreme debris discs. 1/3

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Staring into the stellar nursery NGC 7129 with Webb!

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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: https://t.co/spiHqIOUuo

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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

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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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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: https://t.co/e5w3GbhBsj

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2/ What type of star is at the centre of the nebula?