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JWST reveals ethereal star-forming cloud in IC 348

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JWST reveals ethereal star-forming cloud in IC 348
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning image of the star-forming region IC 348, about 1,000 light-years away, showing wisps of gas and dust where new stars are forming; the snapshot is part of a program to hunt for brown dwarfs—objects between planets and stars—using infrared light to spot them and understand how these faint objects form and vary across space.

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