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IC 348 Crop: Spiral galaxies

IC 348 Crop: Spiral galaxies

This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope shows a few of the spiral galaxies that can be seen behind the clouds of gas that make up the nebula around IC 348. The nebula is located around 1000 light-years from Earth: these spiral galaxies are a thousand times further away than that, being millions of light-years distant. The small, featureless dots in the background are further galaxies, and these…

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ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA
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James Webb Space Telescope
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