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A whirlpool of stars

A whirlpool of stars
A whirlpool of stars One of the spiral arms of the Whirlpool Galaxy, as imaged by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The orange-red regions mark the gas and dust out of which stars are forming, with bright knots of newborn, massive stars scattered throughout. ESA / Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Pedrini, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team