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Stephan's Quintet Sonification from Chandra X-Ray Observatory, NASA Telescopes by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Now performing: Stephan's Quintet

In Stephan’s Quintet, four galaxies move around each other, held together by gravity, while a fifth galaxy sits in the frame but is actually at a much different distance.

This cluster of galaxies was transformed into sound using images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope with additional data from the Spitzer Space Telescope and X-ray light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Sonification Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida)

Visual description: As the cursor moves down the image, the pitch changes in relation to the brightness. The background galaxies and foreground stars are mapped to different notes on a synthetic glass marimba. Meanwhile, stars with diffraction spikes are played as crash cymbals. The galaxies themselves are heard as smoothly changing frequencies as the scan passes over them. A shock wave of superheated gas is represented by a synthetic string sound.

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NASA’s Webb Scratches Beyond Surface of Cat’s Paw for 3rd Anniversary by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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It’s the cat’s meow! To celebrate its third year of revealing stunning scenes of the cosmos in infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has “clawed” back the thick, dusty layers of a section within the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). Focusing Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on a single “toe bean” within this active star-forming region revealed a subset of mini toe beans, which appear to contain young stars shaping the surrounding gas and dust.

Webb’s look at this particular area of the Cat’s Paw Nebula just scratches the surface of the telescope’s three years of groundbreaking science.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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N79 Star Cluster by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Dazzling ✨

What you’re seeing is a 98-light-year-wide chunk of star factory. This new image of N79, a giant region of star formation located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, combines observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and @NASAWebb.

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Shafts of golden light bursting out of a central glowing orb cut through misty clouds in shades of purples, pinks, yellows, and blues.

X-ray, Chandra: NASA/CXC/Ohio State Univ/T. Webb et al.;

Infrared, Webb: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI;

Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Major

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Webb Rounds Out Picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s Disk by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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NASA’s Webb rounds out picture of Sombrero Galaxy’s disk

After capturing an image of the iconic Sombrero galaxy at mid-infrared wavelengths in late 2024, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has now followed up with an observation in the near-infrared. In the newest image, released on June 3, 2025, the Sombrero galaxy’s tightly packed group of stars at the galaxy’s center is illuminated while the dust in the outer edges of the disk blocks some stellar light. Studying galaxies like the Sombrero at different wavelengths, including the near-infrared and mid-infrared with Webb, as well as the visible with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, helps astronomers understand how this complex system of stars, dust, and gas formed and evolved, along with the interplay of that material.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Ressler (NASA-JPL), Dave Jones (IAC)

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NASA’s Webb ‘UNCOVERs’ Galaxy Population Driving Cosmic Renovation by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Astronomers using data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have identified dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know today.

The tiny galaxies were discovered by Wold and his Goddard colleagues, Sangeeta Malhotra and James Rhoads, by sifting through Webb images captured as part of the UNCOVER (Ultradeep NIRSpec and NIRCam ObserVations before the Epoch of Reionization) observing program, led by Rachel Bezanson at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

For much of its first billion years, the universe was immersed in a fog of neutral hydrogen gas. Today, this gas is ionized — stripped of its electrons. Astronomers, who refer to this transformation as reionization, have long wondered which types of objects were most responsible: big galaxies, small galaxies, or supermassive black holes in active galaxies. As one of its main goals, NASA’s Webb was specifically designed to address key questions about this major transition in the history of the universe.

Recent studies have shown that small galaxies undergoing vigorous star formation could have played an outsized role. Such galaxies are rare today, making up only about 1% of those around us. But they were abundant when the universe was about 800 million years old, an epoch astronomers refer to as redshift 7, when reionization was well underway.

In this image, white diamonds show the locations of 20 of the 83 young, low-mass, starburst galaxies found in infrared images of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 2744. This composite incorporates images taken through three NIRCam filters (F200W as blue, F410M as green, and F444W as red). The F410M filter is highly sensitive to light emitted by doubly ionized oxygen — oxygen atoms that have been stripped of two electrons — at a time when reionization was well underway. Emitted as green light, the glow was stretched into the infrared as it traversed the expanding universe over billions of years. The cluster’s mass acts as a natural magnifying glass, allowing astronomers to see these tiny galaxies as they were when the universe was about 800 million years old.

Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/Bezanson et al. 2024 and Wold et al. 2025

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With NASA’s Webb, Dying Star’s Energetic Display Comes Into Full Focus by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Gas and dust ejected by a dying star at the heart of NGC 1514 came into complete focus thanks to mid-infrared data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Its rings, which are only detected in infrared light, now look like “fuzzy” clumps arranged in tangled patterns, and a network of clearer holes close to the central stars shows where faster material punched through.

This scene has been forming for at least 4,000 years — and will continue to change over many more millennia. At the center are two stars that appear as one in Webb’s observation, and are set off with brilliant diffraction spikes. The stars follow a tight, elongated nine-year orbit and are draped in an arc of dust represented in orange.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Michael Ressler (NASA-JPL), Dave Jones (IAC)

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NASA Webb ‘Pierces’ Bullet Cluster, Refines Its Mass by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Hello darkness my old friend…

What you are (not) seeing, highlighted in blue, is dark matter. Webb was used to precisely map out the dark matter that is part of the makeup of two colliding galaxy clusters, with help from @NASAChandraXray. Webb captured more extremely faint galaxies in the Bullet Cluster than ever seen before (as well as foreground stars), allowing scientists to accurately determine the mass of the cluster.

Chandra data shows the hot, X-ray-emitting gas present between the two galaxy clusters (highlighted in pink). As these two galaxy clusters collided, this gas was dragged out and left behind. Webb observations show that the dark matter (in blue) still lines up with the galaxies and was not dragged away.

Normally galaxies consist of gas, dust, stars, and dark matter, all combined, even when the galaxies are part of a cluster. Observing this separation between the gas and dark matter is unusual.

While we cannot see dark matter because it does not emit light, it has mass and gravitational influence on light we can see. It can act like a lens, magnifying and warping objects behind it. Imagine dark matter as water so clear you can’t see it unless the wind ripples it. The ripples will distort the shapes of any pebbles below its surface. Likewise, dark matter distorts the shapes of distant background galaxies. We can’t see it, but we see its effects.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, CXC

Science credit: James Jee (Yonsei University, UC Davis), Sangjun Cha (Yonsei University), Kyle Finner (Caltech/IPAC)

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NASA Missions Spot Cosmic ‘Wreath’ Displaying Stellar Circle of Life by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Since antiquity, wreaths have symbolized the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. It is fitting then that one of the best places for astronomers to learn more about the stellar lifecycle resembles a giant holiday wreath itself.

The star cluster NGC 602 lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way, about 200,000 light-years from Earth. The stars in NGC 602 have fewer heavier elements compared to the Sun and most of the rest of the galaxy. Instead, the conditions within NGC 602 mimic those for stars found billions of years ago when the universe was much younger.

This new image combines data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with a previously released image from the agency's James Webb Space Telescope. The dark ring-like outline of the wreath seen in Webb data (represented as orange, yellow, green, and blue) is made up of dense clouds of filled dust.

Meanwhile, X-rays from Chandra (red) show young, massive stars that are illuminating the wreath, sending high-energy light into interstellar space. These X-rays are powered by winds flowing from the young, massive stars that are sprinkled throughout the cluster. The extended cloud in the Chandra data likely comes from the overlapping X-ray glow of thousands of young, low-mass stars in the cluster.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Infrared: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeilder, E.Sabbi, A. Nota, M. Zamani; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand

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O Christmas Tree! by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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A new version of the “Christmas tree cluster” is now available. Like NGC 602, NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old. (For comparison, the Sun is a middle-aged star about 5 billion years old — about 1,000 times older.) In this image of NGC 2264, which is much closer than NGC 602 at a distance of about 2,500 light-years from Earth, data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (red, purple, blue, and white) has been combined with optical data (green and violet) captured from by astrophotographer Michael Clow from his telescope in Arizona in November 2024.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Clow, M.; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare and K. Arcand

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NASA Webb Wows With Incredible Detail in Actively Forming Star System by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Let's get into formation! ✨

High-resolution near-infrared light captured by @NASAWebb (JWST) shows extraordinary new detail and structure in an actively forming star system, Lynds 483.

Two actively forming stars are responsible for the shimmering ejections of gas and dust that gleam in orange, blue, and purple in this representative color image.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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Astronomers Find Early Fast-Feeding Black Hole Using NASA Telescopes by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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A rapidly feeding black hole at the center of a dwarf galaxy in the early universe, shown in this artist's concept, may hold important clues to the evolution of supermassive black holes in general.

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers discovered this low-mass supermassive black hole just 1.5 billion years after the big bang. The black hole is pulling in matter at a phenomenal rate — over 40 times the theoretical limit. While short lived, this black hole's “feast” could help astronomers explain how supermassive black holes grew so quickly in the early universe.

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early times in the universe's evolution. It's difficult to understand how these black holes were able to grow so big so rapidly. But with the discovery of a low-mass supermassive black hole feasting on material at an extreme rate so soon after the birth of the universe, astronomers now have valuable new insights into the mechanisms of rapidly growing black holes in the early universe.

The black hole, called LID-568, was hidden among thousands of objects in the Chandra X-ray Observatory's COSMOS legacy survey, a catalog resulting from some 4.6 million seconds of Chandra observations. This population of galaxies is very bright in the X-ray light, but invisible in optical and previous near-infrared observations. By following up with Webb, astronomers could use the observatory's unique infrared sensitivity to detect these faint counterpart emissions, which led to the discovery of the black hole.

Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/M. Zamani

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NASA’s Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope more than 20 years ago.

In 2003, Hubble provided evidence of a massive planet around a very old star, almost as old as the universe. Such stars possess only small amounts of heavier elements that are the building blocks of planets. This implied that some planet formation happened when our universe was very young, and those planets had time to form and grow big inside their primordial disks, even bigger than Jupiter. But how? This was puzzling.

To answer this question, researchers used Webb to study stars in a nearby galaxy that, much like the early universe, lacks large amounts of heavy elements. They found that not only do some stars there have planet-forming disks, but that those disks are longer-lived than those seen around young stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

This is a James Webb Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a massive star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors. With its relative lack of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the NGC 346 cluster serves as a nearby proxy for studying stellar environments with similar conditions in the early, distant universe. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid on the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)

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NASA Telescopes Chase Down “Green Monster” in Star’s Debris by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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For the first time, astronomers have combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope to study the well-known supernova remnant Cassiopeia A (Cas A). As described in our latest press release, this work has helped explain an unusual structure in the debris from the destroyed star called the “Green Monster,” first discovered in Webb data in April 2023. The research has also uncovered new details about the explosion that created Cas A about 340 years ago, from Earth’s perspective.

A new composite image contains X-rays from Chandra (blue), infrared data from Webb (red, green, blue), and optical data from Hubble (red and white). The outer parts of the image also include infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (red, green and blue). To see the outline of the "Green Monster," go to this link

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; IR: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/Milisavljevic et al., NASA/JPL/CalTech; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/J. Schmidt and K. Arcand

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NASA’s Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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The universe is full of surprises, and sometimes they glow!

This artist concept portrays the brown dwarf W1935, which is located 47 light-years from Earth. Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found infrared emission from methane coming from W1935. This is an unexpected discovery because the brown dwarf is cold and lacks a host star; therefore, there is no obvious source of energy to heat its upper atmosphere and make the methane glow. The team speculates that the methane emission may be due to processes generating aurorae, shown here in red.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and L. Hustak (STScI)

James Webb Space Telescope Pumpkin Carving - by Hillary Lipko by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Did you carve a NASA Webb pumpkin? Send us pictures! Email us at GSFC-NASAwebb@mail.nasa.gov!

For next year, you can download 4 different carving patterns here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/spacePumpkin.html (There are even more NASA designs here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416)

Image credit: Hillary Lipko

Kenneth Harris II by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Pictured above is Kenneth Harris II preparing to enter a cleanroom at NASA Goddard. By age 24, Kenneth Harris II had already become the youngest African American to perform and lead an integration efforts on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a combined mission between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that serves as a successor to the highly popular Hubble Space Telescope; however, this was not his first mission. In fact, he has completed work on four successful satellite missions over the course of his more than nine year tenure at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center through a combination of paid internships, academic projects, volunteer positions, and career opportunities.

These missions include MMS, GPM, JWST, and JPSS. Now, at age 25, Kenneth continues to accomplish incredible feats. Read more about this on the @nasawebb page & help support him by commenting #Forbes & #30under30

Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn

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NASA’s Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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Using the unique infrared sensitivity of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers can examine ancient galaxies to probe secrets of the early universe. Now, an international team of astronomers has identified bright hydrogen emission from a galaxy in an unexpectedly early time in the universe’s history. The surprise finding is challenging researchers to explain how this light could have pierced the thick fog of neutral hydrogen that filled space at that time.

The Webb telescope discovered the incredibly distant galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1, observed to exist just 330 million years after the big bang, in images taken by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) as part of the James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Researchers used the galaxy’s brightness in different infrared filters to estimate its redshift, which measures a galaxy’s distance from Earth based on how its light has been stretched out during its journey through expanding space.

This image shows the galaxy JADES GS-z13-1 (the red dot at center), imaged with Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program. These data from NIRCam allowed researchers to identify GS-z13-1 as an incredibly distant galaxy, and to put an estimate on its redshift value. Webb’s unique infrared sensitivity is necessary to observe galaxies at this extreme distance, whose light has been shifted into infrared wavelengths during its long journey across the cosmos.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, JADES Collaboration, J. Witstok (University of Cambridge/University of Copenhagen), P. Jakobsen (University of Copenhagen), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

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James Webb Space Telescope Pumpkin Carving - by Kyle Stanley by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Did you carve a NASA Webb pumpkin? Send us pictures! Email us at GSFC-NASAwebb@mail.nasa.gov!

For next year, you can download 4 different carving patterns here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/spacePumpkin.html (There are even more NASA designs here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416)

Image credit: Kyle Stanley

James Webb Space Telescope Pumpkin Carving - by Larry Baskett by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Larry sent in these pumpkins saying they are, "a mash-up of JWST, Star Wars, and (golden honeycomb-inspired) honeybees. There are several subtle JWST and Star Wars references in there. And one more detail you’ll appreciate that wasn’t easy to see in the [daylight photo]: the objective mirror’s upper strut is of course a bendy straw."

Did you carve a NASA Webb pumpkin? Send us pictures! Email us at GSFC-NASAwebb@mail.nasa.gov!

For next year, you can download 4 different carving patterns here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/spacePumpkin.html (There are even more NASA designs here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416)

Image credit: Larry Baskett

James Webb Space Telescope Pumpkin Carving - by Evaggelia Nianiou and Stamatis Zachos by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Did you carve a NASA Webb pumpkin? Send us pictures! Email us at GSFC-NASAwebb@mail.nasa.gov!

For next year, you can download 4 different carving patterns here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/spacePumpkin.html (There are even more NASA designs here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416)

Image credit: Evaggelia Nianiou and Stamatis Zachos

James Webb Space Telescope Pumpkin Carving - by Larry Baskett by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Larry sent in these pumpkins saying they are, "a mash-up of JWST, Star Wars, and (golden honeycomb-inspired) honeybees. There are several subtle JWST and Star Wars references in there. And one more detail you’ll appreciate: the objective mirror’s upper strut is of course a bendy straw."

Did you carve a NASA Webb pumpkin? Send us pictures! Email us at GSFC-NASAwebb@mail.nasa.gov!

For next year, you can download 4 different carving patterns here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/spacePumpkin.html (There are even more NASA designs here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416)

Image credit: Larry Baskett

James Webb Space Telescope Pumpkin Carving - by Lauren Kelly by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Did you carve a NASA Webb pumpkin? Send us pictures! Email us at GSFC-NASAwebb@mail.nasa.gov!

For next year, you can download 4 different carving patterns here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/spacePumpkin.html (There are even more NASA designs here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416)

Image credit: Lauren Kelly

James Webb Space Telescope Pumpkin Carving - by Kenny Chan by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Did you carve a NASA Webb pumpkin? Send us pictures! Email us at GSFC-NASAwebb@mail.nasa.gov!

For next year, you can download 4 different carving patterns here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/spacePumpkin.html (There are even more NASA designs here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416)

Image credit: Kenny Chan

The Tarantula Nebula by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

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The star-forming region, 30 Doradus, is one of the largest located close to the Milky Way and is found in the neighboring galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud. About 2,400 massive stars in the center of 30 Doradus, also known as the Tarantula Nebula, are producing intense radiation and powerful winds as they blow off material. Multimillion-degree gas detected in X-rays by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory comes from shock fronts formed by these stellar winds and by supernova explosions.

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al.

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James Webb Space Telescope Pumpkin Carving - by Mokslo Sriuba by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Did you carve a NASA Webb pumpkin? Send us pictures! Email us at GSFC-NASAwebb@mail.nasa.gov!

For next year, you can download 4 different carving patterns here: jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/spacePumpkin.html (There are even more NASA designs here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13416)

Image credit: Mokslo Sriuba

James Webb Space Telescope Artist Conception by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

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Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope.

Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez

Image description: The Webb telescope is depicted by an artist as it might look in space. Webb has a kite-shaped sunshield and a large golden mirror made of hexagons. Three long struts that make a tripod, meet out in front of the mirror, where they support a smaller circular secondary mirror. A black nose cone is in the center of the mirror. This is where light enters the instruments, which sit behind the mirror. The mirror and top of the sunshield are shown in darkness, which is how they are in space. The mirror reflects stars. A bright galaxy lights the lower right part of the image, underneath Webb.

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