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NASA's Webb Telescope Unmasks True Nature of the Cosmic Tornadoย 

March 24, 2025 10:00AM Release ID: 2025-112

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Webbโ€™s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy.

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When peering out into space, we get a 2D view of a 3D universe. Sometimes, images will capture objects that appear close to each other on the sky, but are actually at wildly different distances and are unassociated with each other.

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NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope captured this beautiful juxtaposition of the nearby protostellar outflow known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 with a perfectly positioned, more distant spiral galaxy. Due to the close proximity of this Herbig-Haro object to the Earth, this new composite infrared image of the outflow from a young star allows researchers to examine details on small spatial scales like never before. With Webb, we can better understand how the jet activity associated with the formation of young stars can affect their surrounding environment.

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Full Article:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-112

[There is a 1 min video in link]

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NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope observed Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light. The young star is off to the lower right corner of the Webb image.Intricate features of the outflow, represented in reddish-orange color, provide detailed clues about how young stars form and how their jet activity affects the environment around them. A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object (located within our Milky Way) with a face-on spiral galaxy in the distant background.ย 

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Protostars are young stars in the process of formation that generally launch narrow jets of material. These jets move through the surrounding environment, in some cases extending to large distances away from the protostar.ย ย 

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What the Webb telescope continues to uncover is awe-inspiring. Sadly, many will attribute the intricacy and beauty found in the vastness of the universe to mere chance, refusing to acknowledge even the possibility of a masterful designer behind what they see. They are skeptical, despite the obvious evidence.

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Blind Perception

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When Webb's inquiring eye began its search,
It lifted veils to show the farthest light.
And now that man has reached the highest perch,
He can observe the stars beyond the night.

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A random cause is all that they can see,
And thus they praise the god of happenstance.
They laud their deity with fickle glee,
Failing to note who built the vast expanse.

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What is revealed to them is just a glance
Inside the hand of one they can't conceive.
They credit all that Webb displays to chance,
The non-existent god to whom they cleave.

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Though they perceive what lies beyond the sky,
They blind their inner eye and chase the lie.

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NASA's Webb Sees Galaxy Mysteriously Clearing Fog of Early Universe

March 26, 2025 12:00PM Release ID: 2025-116

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Unexpected, bright hydrogen emission caught astronomers by surprise.

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The early universe was filled with a thick fog of neutral hydrogen. Even though the first stars and galaxies emitted copious amounts of ultraviolet light, that light struggled to pierce the fog. It took hundreds of millions of years for the neutral hydrogen to become ionized, electrons stripped from protons, allowing light to travel freely through space.

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Astronomers are seeking to understand this unique time of transformation, known as the era of reionization. A newly discovered galaxy illuminated this era in an unexpected way. JADES-GS-z13-1, observed just 330 million years after the big bang, shows bright hydrogen emission that should have been absorbed by the cosmic fog. Theorists are struggling to explain how its light could have pierced the fog at such an early time.

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Full Article:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-116.html

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The incredibly distant galaxy JADES-GS-z13-1, observed just 330 million years after the big bang, was initially discovered with deep imaging from NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescopeโ€™s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera). Now, an international team of astronomers definitively has identified powerful hydrogen emission from this galaxy at an unexpectedly early period in the universeโ€™s history. JADES-GS-z-13 has a redshift (z) of 13, which is an indication of its age and distance.

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NASA Webb Explores Effect of Strong Magnetic Fields on Star Formation

April 02, 2025 10:00AM Release ID: 2025-115

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Two new research studies explore how a stellar nursery in the heart of the Milky Way is affected by the regionโ€™s strong magnetic fields.

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Despite decades of study, the process of star formation still holds many mysteries. Stars are the source of nearly all the universeโ€™s chemical elements, including carbon and oxygen, so understanding why and how they form โ€” or not โ€” is a crucial initial step in understanding how the universe works and the origins of just about everything, including life on Earth.ย 

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At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy is the star-forming region Sagittarius C, which despite a wealth of raw material does not make as many stars as astronomers would expect. Two new studies have used NASAโ€™s James Webb Space Telescope to investigate star formation in this extreme environment that is relatively near the supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way, at 200 light-years distance.ย 

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Full Article:

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2025/news-2025-115.html

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Labeling, compass arrows, and scale bars provide context for these MeerKAT and James Webb Space Telescope images. The star-forming region Sagittarius C, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, is about 200 light-years from the Milky Wayโ€™s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

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Huge vertical filamentary structures in the MeerKAT radio data echo those Webb captured on a smaller scale, in infrared, in a blue-green hydrogen cloud. Astronomers think the strong magnetic fields in the heart of the galaxy are shaping the filaments.

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