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Webb Unveils a Star-Filled Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula

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Source: European Space Agency
Webb Unveils a Star-Filled Treasure Chest in the Carina Nebula
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NASA/ESA/CSA's James Webb Space Telescope highlights a cometary globule in the Carina Nebula nicknamed the Treasure Chest, housing about 70 young stars (the most massive about 19 solar masses) within a ~1.3-million-year-old cluster still embedded in dust; its distinctive shape is shaped by nearby Eta Carinae and Trumpler 16, and Webb's NIRCam reveals the glow of newly formed stars as gas and dust are gradually dispersed.

Topics:sciencespace#astronomy#carina-nebula#cometary-globule#james-webb-space-telescope#space#star-formation
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