NASA James Webb Space Telescope JWST Cosmic Cliffs
You may have seen the ‘Cosmic Cliffs’ before, but NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows the details in these seemingly three-dimensional cliffs like never before. These aren’t actually cliffs, but rather the edge of a nearby stellar nursery called NGC 3324 at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula.


NASA James Webb Space Telescope JWST Cosmic Cliffs
These tower approximately 7 light-years high and are speckled with glimmering, young stars imaged in infrared light. You also see a cavernous area that was carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation as well as stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars. What looks like a wall is actually blistering, ultraviolet radiation. Equally as impressive on Earth is this cliff house, which looks like something from a science fiction movie.

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Webb reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars that are completely hidden in visible-light pictures. Because of Webb’s sensitivity to infrared light, it can peer through cosmic dust to see these objects. Protostellar jets, which emerge clearly in this image, shoot out from some of these young stars. The youngest sources appear as red dots in the dark, dusty region of the cloud. Objects in the earliest, rapid phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb’s extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability can chronicle these elusive events,” said NASA.

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