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James Webb Space Telescope reveals stunning star-forming cluster Pismis 24 in Lobster Nebula | – The Times of India

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a stunning, detailed view of star birth in the young star cluster Pismis 24. What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is, in reality, a cosmic dust-scape being sculpted by the intense radiation and winds of massive, infant stars.According to NASA reports,…

Astronomers discover giant star-forming cloud, 5,000 times larger than the Sun, near our solar system | – The Times of India

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A Rutgers University research team in New Jersey spotted the newly found cloud, which was named Eos—after the Greek deity of dawn. Being only 300 light-years away, it is the closest known big molecular cloud. Molecular clouds are huge, cold reservoirs of gas and dust that cradle new stars. What distinguishes Eos is not only…