JWST uncovers the Lobster Nebula’s firestorm of starbirth

If you look at a photo of a face-on spiral galaxy, you’ll notice spiral arms filled with glowing gas clouds, sparkling star clusters, and opaque dust lanes curving gently away from the galaxy’s core. An image of an edge-on spiral gives a completely different picture. The gas, dust, and stars now occupy a thin diskContinue reading “JWST uncovers the Lobster Nebula’s firestorm of starbirth”

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