The Cosmic Cliffs

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Source: theatlantic.com
The Cosmic Cliffs
A vast cloud of gas and dust in space, with a sharply-defined edge, and stars in the distance
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, J. DePasquale

Day 20 of the 2025 Space Telescope Advent Calendar: The Cosmic Cliffs. The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a region at the edge of a gigantic gaseous cavity within the star cluster NGC 3324. The cluster, about 9,100 light-years away, near the Carina Nebula, is believed to be fairly young, only about 12 million years old.

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