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fromThe Atlantic
3 days ago

Day 22 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Heart of a Tarantula

James Webb imaged the Tarantula Nebula's star-forming region, showing a cavity carved by radiation from massive young stars about 161,000 light-years away.
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fromThe Atlantic
4 days ago

Day 21 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: Warped Space

Galaxy Cluster Abell 209's mass warps and magnifies background galaxies via gravitational lensing, producing stretched and smeared clumps visible in Hubble images.
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