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Stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron
In this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, we visit a turbulent cauldron of star formation to see what is brewing inside dense clumps of gas. This is a star-forming region named LHA 120-N 159, or simply N159, located 161 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. This image spans about 230 light years across…
- Credit
- ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA
- Telescope
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
- Published
- Source
- Webb release page
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