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NASA's Webb Spots Blowtorch of Gas on Milky Way's Outskirts

September 11, 2025

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a jaw-dropping sight: a massive jet of glowing gas blasting out…

$Gaseous yellow-orange filaments look like a rose seen from the side and tilted slightly from upper left to lower right, slightly higher than the center of the frame. Extending from the rose to upper left and lower right are gaseous outflows that appear as red lobes that have an overall shape of tall, narrow triangles with rounded tips. Each red triangle is made up of wavy, irregular lines. Dozens of stars are scattered across the field. One particularly bright white star with eight diffraction spikes is located at the top of the yellow rose. Another bright blue star with even more prominent diffraction spikes is to its lower left. The background of space is black.$

September 10, 2025

A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James…

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A comet with a compact coma and a short tail in front of a background of stars.

September 10, 2025

On 1 July 2025, astronomers detected a visitor from the deep reaches of space. At the time of…

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