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A mere 390 light-years away, Sun-like stars and future planetary systems are forming in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to our fair planet. The James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam peered into the nearby natal chaos to capture this infrared image at an inspiring scale.

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[–] lemmybrucelee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So incredibly cool. Love how well JWST is performing, what a triumph for science!

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Me too, it's producing some beautifully clear images. I look forward to seeing how far they push this scope

[–] sangle_of_flame@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

breathtaking

[–] Nahaelem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A mere 390 light-years away 😂😂 Maybe someday

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Right? It's a quick trip down the road compared to some of the objects we have images of.

[–] Ieatcrayons@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Fantastic image

[–] laxe@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This looks very cool but I’m wondering what kind of postprocessing they apply to the images. There’s no way the original infrared image looks like this.

[–] Venutianxspring@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure about these infrared images, but if you're interested, you can actually download the raw data from Webb and use it to practice postprocessing. There's probably writeups on the process online somewhere though, if you're interested

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

But do they have a Pinkberry there??? I'm guessing they dont...

Hmm... not so impressive sounding now, is it?

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

So there's some giant slews of magma floating around there.

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