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Stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron

First reported 2026-10-22 08:00 UTC · Updated 2026-10-22 17:40 UTC · 2 independent sources

In this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, we visit a turbulent cauldron of star formation to see what is brewing inside dense clumps of gas. This is a star-forming region named LHA 120-N 159, or simply N159, located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic…

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  1. 2026-10-22 08:00 UTCESA · esa.int ↗
  2. 2026-10-22 17:40 UTCPhys.org · phys.org ↗

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