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Wooooaaahhhh!

The new JWST image of a small bit of the Horsehead Nebula is INCREDIBLE.

To give you a sense of scale here, here’s an image of the nebula from my backyard. That small white box … that’s the JWST field of view! 🤯🤯🤯

Look at ALL those galaxies, all in that tiny white box.

JWST image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, K. Misselt and A. Abergel. [updated]

Dodgy image with white boxes is my own.

#JWST #SpaceTelescope #HorseheadNebula #Astronomy #Galaxies #Astrodon

Two tile image showing a nebula in space that is a long swath of reddish gas with a dark cloud in the centre. The dark cloud is in the shape of a Horsehead. The top tile is a wide angle shot whilst the lower tile is a zoomed in shot. A white box is annotated on the region of the Horsehead nebula that indicates the field of view from the telescope.

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$At the bottom of the image a small portion of the Horsehead Nebula is seen close-in, as a curved wall of thick, smoky gas and dust. Above the nebula various distant stars and galaxies can be seen up to the top of the image. One star is very bright and large, with six long diffraction spikes that cross the image. The background fades from a dark red colour above the nebula to black.$

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