View Eye-Popping Cosmic Tarantula Stars by James Webb Telescope - NASA

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Another day, another mind-blowing view of the cosmos from the James Webb Space Telescope.

another mind-blowing view

The latest image form Webb's is able to reveal exquisite details of the Tarantula Nebula, a scenic region of gas, dust and hot young stars.

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The nebula is located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, in the middle of the Milky Way.

161,000 light-years away

Webb's Near-Infrared Camera sees the nebula as "a burrowing tarantula's home, lined with its silk".

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Look to the center of the NIRCam image to see blue stars twinkling in a cavity they've created from their own radiation.

Multiple Blue Rings

One of the stars in the nebula was closely examined by the Near-Infrared Spectrograph on the telescope.

Multiple Blue Rings

"The hot stars fade, and the cooler gas and dust glow," NASA said.

Multiple Blue Rings

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