This image was taken by the Descent Stage Down-Look Camera (DDC).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
Mosaic of 3 pictures taken with Mastcam Right camera (100mm focal length) aboard Curiosity rover on sol 3887 (July 13th, 2023) at 11:40 am Martian local time.
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What’s that caught in our Webb? A giant space tarantula!
Take a moment to stare into thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula. The James Webb Space Telescope reveals details of the structure and composition of the nebula, as well as dozens of background galaxies.
Stellar nursery 30 Doradus gets its nickname of the Tarantula Nebula from its long, dusty filaments. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, it’s the largest and brightest star-forming region near our own galaxy, plus home to the hottest, most massive stars known.
The center of this image, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera instrument (NIRCam), has been hollowed out by the radiation from young, massive stars (seen in sparkling pale blue). Only the densest surrounding areas of the nebula resist erosion, forming the pillars that appear to point back towards the cluster of stars in the center. The pillars are home to still-forming stars, which will eventually leave their dusty cocoons and help shape the nebula.
Why is this nebula interesting to astronomers? Unlike in our Milky Way, the Tarantula Nebula is producing new stars at a furious rate. Though close to us, it is similar to the gigantic star-forming regions from when the universe was only a few billion years old, and star formation was at its peak — a period known as “cosmic noon.” Since the Tarantula is close to us, it is easy to study in detail to help us learn more about the universe’s past.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/a-cosmic-tarantula-caug...
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
Image description: A space image captured by the Webb telescope. Fluffy tan-colored nebula clouds, with rust-colored highlights, surround a black central area. Within that area, the focal point of the image is one large yellow star with eight long thin points. To the right of this star is a bright star cluster in an oval shape. The stars within the cluster look like tiny pale blue sparkles. The cluster is more densely packed at its core and scatters outward. Towards the bottom of the image, multiple arms appear to spiral out of a cloudy tan knob, resembling a spider or a squid structure. Other blue and yellow eight-pointed stars, as well as distant galaxies, are dotted throughout the image.
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Mosaic of 13 pictures taken with Mastcam Right camera (100mm focal length) aboard Curiosity rover on sol 3520 (July 1st, 2022) at 11:52 am Martian local time.
The finely layered Kukenán hill is about 125 m high.
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Crops of three images with an interesting bright spot.
Collected by JunoCam instrument on Juno spacecraft from an altitude of 4325 to 7235 km between 2020-09-16T02:17 and 2020-09-16T02:21
Spherical projection at 45 pixels per degree.
Images (processed with Juno3D Mathematica/Blender pipeline available on Github.)
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Raw Source Files: JNCE_2020260_29C00032_V01-raw.png,JNCE_2020260_29C00034_V01-raw.png,JNCE_2020260_29C00035_V01-raw.png
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Brian Swift
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More JunoCam images at: www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?perpage=72
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