Astronomy

An illustrated image of Europa Clipper, a spacecraft with large solar arrays and antennae, flying in front of Europa, a large moon of Jupiter.

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NASA's Artemis I spacecraft stands on a launchpad with the full Moon in the background. Photo by NASA/Ben Smegelsky.

$The Carina Nebula, as photographed by the James Webb Space Telescope in 2022. The image is divided horizontally by a line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.$

Exploring Space with LabXchange and NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

February 16, 2024

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