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Webb Sees Turbulent Star Nursery

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Webb Sees Turbulent Star Nursery

NASA · Official source · Oct 28, 2026, 3:33 PM UTC

In this Webb image released on Oct. 22, 2026, we see a turbulent cauldron of star formation filled with dense clumps of gas. This region is named N159 and is located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. This region has a lower metallicity […]