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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Another jaw-dropper from JWST, from a survey of planet-forming disks in the star-forming region NGC 346, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. 🧪 🔭 Source: webbtelescope.org/contents/new... Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA)

$False color image of the star-forming region NGC 346 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Delicate lanes of gas are dotted by bright stars in this image produced with JWST's NIRCam instrument. The dominant colors of the gassy regions are purple and orange. Stars show the characteristic six-fold diffraction spikes produced by JWST. Exposures in four wavelength ranges were colored Red, Orange, Cyan, and Blue and then combined.$

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