A Glittering Stellar Nursery Shines In New JWST Image

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Pismis 24-1 is in the Pismis 24 star cluster. The star is in the center of this image, where the filament of gas points upward. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, A. Pagan (STScI)

This sparkling scene of star birth was captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being eaten away by the blistering winds and radiation of nearby, massive, infant stars.

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