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  • Looking back in time

    Jul 19, 2022 11:15 am by Dave EvensenExploration
    This nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula was captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope. The image of the so-called Cosmic Cliffs reveals previously invisible areas of star birth. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.)

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    • This nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula was captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope. The image of the so-called Cosmic Cliffs reveals previously invisible areas of star birth. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.)

    Doctoral student Kedar Phadke and astronomy professor Joaquin Vieira will be among the first to observe research images from the James Webb telescope as part of their study of high-redshift (very far away) dusty star-forming galaxies.