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  • A nearby, young, star-forming region in the Carina Nebula.
    (Via NASA)
  • The five galaxies in Stephan’s Quintet constructed from nearly 1,000 separate image files — the largest composite image to date from the Webb Space Telescope.
    (Via NASA)
  • A side-by-side comparison of the Southern Ring Nebula in near-infrared light, left, and mid-infrared light, right.
    (Via NASA)
  • Thousands of galaxies are captured in Webb’s first deep field image.

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