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Sagittarius C by James Webb Space Telescope

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  • A multitude of stars packed together in a dense region of space, shining brightly in the surrounding darkness. A bright blue cloud in the lower half of the image with pitch black patches appearing within the cloud—areas which are so dense with matter that they block the light of distant stars.
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    The full view of the James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s center. A vast region of ionized hydrogen, shown in blue, wraps around an infrared-dark cloud, which is so dense it blocks the light from distant stars behind it.

  • A multitude of stars packed together in a dense region of space, shining brightly in the surrounding darkness. A bright blue cloud in the lower half of the image with pitch black patches appearing within the cloud—areas which are so dense with matter that they block the light of distant stars.

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