This image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows star birth like it's never been seen before! The subject is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan)

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The stunning star-forming region known as NGC 1333 Ferocious stellar winds, likely from the bright blue star at the top of the image, are blowing through a curtain of dust. (Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI)

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A stunning view of M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. (Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)

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Interesting fact: A new star is born in our galaxy roughly every 18 days! (Credit: NASA/ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))

Magnificent: The Cone Nebula, situated approximately 2,500 light-years away. Its towering, pillar-like structure exemplifies the forms that emerge within vast clouds of cold molecular gas and dust, regions renowned for nurturing the birth of new stars. (Credit: ESO)

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Gorgeous Mocha Swirls in Jupiter’s Atmosphere! The dark vortex near the centre might be larger than you think, it's a cyclone measuring about 250 miles (400km) across! (Credit: Credit: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center)

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The stunning dust swirls of the Flame Nebula! (Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Da Rio; Processing: Gladys Kober)

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Look up from the Southern Hemisphere and you might spot a faint, glowing patch. This is not an interstellar gas cloud, but actually the LMC, one of our galaxy’s closest neighbours and home to roughly 20 billion stars! Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)

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Fascinating: PV Cep, the star embedded in the cloud of gas near the centre of this image, is in the process of forming. As it forms, it ejects jets of gas, seen as the S-shaped line of red blobs (Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

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The delicate nebula NGC 1788, located in a dark and often neglected corner of the Orion constellation, is revealed in this finely nuanced image. (Credit: ESO)

Intriguing discovery! A small world beyond Neptune seems to have an atmosphere, puzzling astronomers: www.universal-sci.com/article/smal...

Billowing clouds of gas and dust swirl near the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy situated about 160,000 light-years away. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Murray, N. Bartmann)

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Spectacular: A quiet-looking galaxy with a powerful heart. IC 486 glows 380 million light-years away, its spiral arms wrapped around an active core powered by a supermassive black hole. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth)

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Interesting fact: A neutron star weighing as much as 500,000 Earths would have a diameter smaller than New York City. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)

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Intriguing: Arp 220 is the closest Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy (ULIRG) to our planet! It formed from the collision and ongoing merger of two galaxies. (Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans)

Spectacular: VISTA’s infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (Credit: ESO, J. Emerson, VISTA - Acknowledgment- Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)

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This chart tells a surprisingly emotional story. As Americans age, friends fade from daily life, children rise and fall, partners become more central. But the clearest trend is solitude: Americans spend more time alone as they get older.. (Credit: Our World in Data)

Two breathtaking nebulae! The Cone Nebula appears near the bottom center, while the Fox Fur Nebula glows in the upper left. The delicate orange and blue arcs are Herbig-Haro objects, shaped by newborn stars Credit: T.A. Rector (NRAO/AUI/NSF and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA) and B.A. Wolpa (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

Amazing progress in space telescope capability! Spitzer Space Telescope (left) versus the James Webb Space Telescope (right) (Credit: STScI, Zolt G. Levay, Alyssa Pagan)

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Astonishing: Two galaxies (Arp-Madore 608-333) intertwine, distorting each other’s shapes through the powerful pull of mutual gravity. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Dark Energy Survey/Department of Energy/Fermilab/Dark Energy Camera/Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory/NOIRLab/AURA)

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Spectacular: IC 4406, also called the Retina Nebula, is a star in its final stages of life. If you could orbit it in a spacecraft, you’d see a vast ring of gas and dust flowing outward. (Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); C.R. O'Dell - Vanderbilt University)

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Stunning: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope offers an extraordinary glimpse into the crowded heart of our galaxy, exposing previously hidden details. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe)

The Helix Nebula in stunning detail as captured by JWST This close-up shows a dramatic boundary where the hottest gas gives way to cooler material as the nebula expands into space. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)

A gorgeous view of DEM L249, the remains of a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way about 160,000 light-years away. It was likely created by a Type 1a supernova, the explosive end of a white dwarf star in a binary system. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Y. Chu)

A look into the unusual heart of NGC 1512, a galaxy some 30 million light-years away. At its center lies a spectacular circumnuclear starburst ring, stretching 2,400 light-years across and glowing with young star clusters. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Maoz)

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Gorgeous! Messier 77, or the Squid Galaxy, 45 million light-years away, was long mistaken for a nebula until advances in astronomy revealed it as a distant galaxy with tentacle-like filaments inspiring its modern nickname... (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. C. Ho, D. Thilker)

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A bright foreground star can’t outshine the grandeur of galaxy UGC 3855. Young blue stars are scattered along its spiral arms, contrasted and complemented by dark dust lanes tracing the galaxy’s structure. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Walsh)

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Fascinating: JWST reveals four spiralling shells of dust around Apep, a rare pair of Wolf-Rayet stars. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White (Macquarie University); Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

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Breathtaking, VISTA's look at the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), a planetary nebula located 700 light-years away (Credit: ESO/VISTA/J. Emerson. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)