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@theplanetaryguy.com

There's a brand new image from JWST and it's beautiful. Stars are being born here.

6/10/26, 6:50 pm103 reposts406 likes

Nobue Miyamatsu

@regg4.bsky.social

🤣

@altheeditor.bsky.social

Goddammit, every time I see the initialism JWST I think of this:

@theplanetaryguy.com

This is NGC 7129, a star-forming region about 3,300 lightyears away. Hot, atomic hydrogen glows with a golden hue; cooler, molecular hydrogen shows as red. There, gas outflows from protostars form complex clumpy structures. The scene is 5.8 arcminutes across. Celestial North is to the bottom right.

@theplanetaryguy.com

Read more: esawebb.org/images/weic2... Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/A. Pagan

@ardensteve.bsky.social

NCC-7129 you say? Clearly a starship not a region of space. 🚀

Susan Wilkinson; artist

@swilk.bsky.social

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@solitarycorvid.bsky.social

It looks beautiful from here, local conditions might be somewhat unpleasant to visit.

@darbrina.bsky.social

Beautiful 😍

@sephiroth144.bsky.social

... ... ... don't spoil the "time it takes light to travel" details- let us just think "Stars are being born there"