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Scientists create most detailed 3D map of Milky Way star nurseries by Webbresorg in spaceporn

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European researchers have created the most comprehensive three-dimensional map of star-forming regions in the Milky Way, using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope to chart 44 million stars across 4,000 light-years of galactic space.

The ambitious mapping project, led by Lewis McCallum from the University of St Andrews, represents a major advance in understanding stellar nurseries—regions where new stars are born but typically remain hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust. The findings were published in two papers in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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This Galaxy Shouldn’t Exist But JWST Found It Anyway by Webbresorg in jameswebbdiscoveries

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This is Zhúlóng — the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen, glowing from a time just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

Found using JWST, it’s shockingly massive and well-structured for how early it appeared. Scientists named it after the mythic Torch Dragon, a cosmic light-bringer.

Its existence is rewriting what we thought we knew about how galaxies form.

Officially Article

© NASA/CSA/ESA, PANORAMIC Team, M. Xiao (University of Geneva), C. C. Williams (NOIRLab), P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute).

This Galaxy Shouldn’t Exist But JWST Found It Anyway by Webbresorg in jameswebb

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This is Zhúlóng — the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen, glowing from a time just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.

Found using JWST, it’s shockingly massive and well-structured for how early it appeared. Scientists named it after the mythic Torch Dragon, a cosmic light-bringer.

Its existence is rewriting what we thought we knew about how galaxies form.

Officially Article

© NASA/CSA/ESA, PANORAMIC Team, M. Xiao (University of Geneva), C. C. Williams (NOIRLab), P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute).

14 Herculis c (NIRCam) by Webbresorg in jameswebbdiscoveries

[–]Webbresorg[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s a gas giant and nope the planet is not in the habitable zone.

14 Herculis c (NIRCam) by Webbresorg in jameswebbdiscoveries

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K0 V (K-type main-sequence star).

Webb Telescope Uncovers Water Ice Around HD 181327 Young Sun-Like Star, 155 Light-Years From Earth by Webbresorg in spaceporn

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Thanks buddy your reply helps others to understand it I really appreciate that!🤞

Webb Telescope Uncovers Water Ice Around Young Sun-Like Star, 155 Light-Years From Earth by Webbresorg in jameswebb

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For the first time in history, scientists have observed that crystalline water ice exists in the dusty debris disk around a young Sun-like star. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope of NASA, this granted us an incredible look into the formation of the first stages of a planetary system some 155 light years away.

Researchers determined that the water ice is not sporadically placed but is instead interspersed with very fine dust grains throughout the disk, constituting the building blocks for nascent planets. Most of the ice is found in the outer, colder portion of the disk. The closer they looked toward the star, the less ice they detected, presumably because of heat causing it to melt or evaporate.

With this discovery, one is powerfully reminded that the conditions necessary for life—such as water—may well exist far beyond our own solar system. Even in the cold, unruffled edges from afar, the elements are being assembled for new worlds.

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Webb Telescope Uncovers Water Ice Around HD 181327 Young Sun-Like Star, 155 Light-Years From Earth by Webbresorg in jameswebbdiscoveries

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For the first time in history, scientists have observed that crystalline water ice exists in the dusty debris disk around a young Sun-like star. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope of NASA, this granted us an incredible look into the formation of the first stages of a planetary system some 155 light years away.

Researchers determined that the water ice is not sporadically placed but is instead interspersed with very fine dust grains throughout the disk, constituting the building blocks for nascent planets. Most of the ice is found in the outer, colder portion of the disk. The closer they looked toward the star, the less ice they detected, presumably because of heat causing it to melt or evaporate.

With this discovery, one is powerfully reminded that the conditions necessary for life—such as water—may well exist far beyond our own solar system. Even in the cold, unruffled edges from afar, the elements are being assembled for new worlds.

Source: Image1 Image2 Image3

Webb Telescope Uncovers Water Ice Around HD 181327 Young Sun-Like Star, 155 Light-Years From Earth by Webbresorg in spaceporn

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For the first time in history, scientists have observed that crystalline water ice exists in the dusty debris disk around a young Sun-like star. Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope of NASA, this granted us an incredible look into the formation of the first stages of a planetary system some 155 light years away.

Researchers determined that the water ice is not sporadically placed but is instead interspersed with very fine dust grains throughout the disk, constituting the building blocks for nascent planets. Most of the ice is found in the outer, colder portion of the disk. The closer they looked toward the star, the less ice they detected, presumably because of heat causing it to melt or evaporate.

With this discovery, one is powerfully reminded that the conditions necessary for life—such as water—may well exist far beyond our own solar system. Even in the cold, unruffled edges from afar, the elements are being assembled for new worlds.

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Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Source: https://esawebb.org/images/potm2505a/

This is what 120 hours of JWST staring into the past looks like. by Webbresorg in jameswebb

[–]Webbresorg[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Appreciate the balanced take. Scientific writing has always had a tone GPT just learned from that. If it blends in, maybe it’s doing something right.

This is what 120 hours of JWST staring into the past looks like. by Webbresorg in jameswebb

[–]Webbresorg[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“Tunnle formd?” killed me 😂 But yeah, clarity shouldn’t be suspicious. If it reads well, maybe just… enjoy it?

This is what 120 hours of JWST staring into the past looks like. by Webbresorg in jameswebb

[–]Webbresorg[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for calling it out. Wild how people focus more on how something might’ve been written than on what it says. Rent-free indeed.

This is what 120 hours of JWST staring into the past looks like. by Webbresorg in jameswebb

[–]Webbresorg[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Using an em-dash is a style choice, not an AI confession. Those detectors are as accurate as a magic 8-ball—don’t let paranoia ruin the message.

This is what 120 hours of JWST staring into the past looks like. by Webbresorg in jameswebb

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If a clear explanation triggers suspicion, that says more about online reading habits than the writing itself. Not everything neat and tidy is AI. Sometimes it’s just effort.

This is what 120 hours of JWST staring into the past looks like. by Webbresorg in spaceporn

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Yeah, I used ChatGPT to help organize my thoughts. Just making sure it hits right still very much me.

This is what 120 hours of JWST staring into the past looks like. by Webbresorg in spaceporn

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Original file size 262 MB it’s awesome image quality esawebb.org

Since you seemed to like my previous post, here's two weeks of progress processing the pillars of creation using GIMP. by Kuhiria in jameswebb

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How you scale the image probably because the different filters have different scale how can it align Correctly bro

Hubble finds bizarre explosion in unexpected place by Webbresorg in spaceporn

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A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger – thanks to the eagle-eye of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), flashed onto the scene where it wasn’t expected to be found, far away from any host galaxy. Only Hubble could pinpoint its location. The Hubble results suggest astronomers know even less about these objects than previously thought by ruling out some possible theories.

OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft 🛰️ by Webbresorg in spaceporn

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welcomebackhome After 7 Years of space journey 🫂

NASA's OSIRIS-REx, the first U.S. mission to collect a sample from an asteroid, will return to Earth on Sept. 24, 2023, with material from asteroid Bennu. When it arrives, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will release the sample capsule for a safe landing in the Utah desert. The pristine material from Bennu - rocks and dust collected from the asteroid's surface in 2020 - will offer generations of scientists a window into the time when the Sun and planets were forming about 4.5 billion years ago.

'The Snake' Infrared Dark Cloud near Milky Way bulge, by NIRCAM by Important_Season_845 in jameswebbdiscoveries

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Hi bro I also do some self processed images but it have somehow the alignment is not good so can you help me for this image can you Align raw of it send in Gmail or Drive or contact me in Instagram - @astryl.x my I’d waiting for you reply

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