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Webb space telescope captures tarantula nebula

8 September 2022
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2022-09-08 11:05

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula, a stellar nursery called 30 Doradus.The young stars were previously shrouded from view by cosmic dust.Astronomers are using two of Webb's spectrographs to take a closer look at this region and determine the chemical makeup of a prominent older star and its surrounding gas.

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