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James Webb Space Telescope HH 30 Protoplanetary Disc
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of HH 30, an edge-on protoplanetary disc located in the dark cloud LDN 1551, also known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud, located 450 light-years from Earth. Herbig-Haro objects like this one are basically small nebulae found in star formation regions, marking the locations where gas flowing out from young stars is heated into luminescence by shockwaves.

Space Advertising Billboard Coca-Cola
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) wants the government to limit space advertising before it really takes off, possibly within this decade. They believe that humanity’s scientific understanding of the universe depends on clear and unobstructed views of the cosmos, an enterprise currently under threat from activities in space, including the proliferation of large satellite constellations.