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James Webb Telescope captures ‘breathtaking’ images of Orion Nebula

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured breathtaking images of the Orion Nebula thousands of light-years away from Earth. The wall of dense gas and dust resembles a massive winged creature, its glowing maw lit by a bright star as it soars through cosmic filaments. An international research team on Monday revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, leaving astronomers "blown away." The stellar nursery is situated in the constellation Orion, 1,350 light-years away from Earth, in a similar setting in which our own solar system was birthed more than 4.5 billion years ago. Astronomers are interested in the region to better understand what happened during the first mill...