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Thousands of newborn stars dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA's Webb Space Telescope

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Thousands of newborn stars dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA's Webb Space Telescope

By MARCIA DUNN - AP Aerospace Writer
Sep 5, 2025

Thousands of newborn stars sparkle and dazzle in the latest snapshot by NASA's Webb Space Telescope. Released this week, the picture provides a breathtaking view of a nearby star-birthing center, just 5,500 light-years away. Besides baby stars in a variety of sizes and colors, the photo reveals a dramatic wall of star-forming cloud of dust and gas. This cloud, or nebula, is being eaten away by all the scorching wind and radiation emitted from the infant stars. Launched in 2021, Webb is the largest and most powerful telescope ever sent into space.

Telescope reveals a growing tail on the comet that's visiting from another star

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Telescope reveals a growing tail on the comet that's visiting from another star

By MARCIA DUNN - AP Aerospace Writer
Sep 4, 2025

Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that's visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile are the best yet of the recently discovered comet. They show a wide coma of dust and gas around the ice ball as it speeds closer toward the sun, and also a tail that's more extended than it was in previous shots. The National Space Foundation's NOIRLab says these new images confirm that the comet is becoming more active as it plows harmlessly through our solar system. It's only the third known interstellar object to venture our way.

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Interstellar Comet

Uncredited - NSF's NOIRLab
Updated Sep 4, 2025

This image composed from multiple exposures and provided by NSF's NOIRLab shows a comet streaking across a star field above the International Gemini Observatory on Cerro Pachon, near La Serena, Chile. (NSF's NoirLab via AP)