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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of the star-forming region N159, located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The nebula, less than 3 million years old, features dense filaments of molecular hydrogen and glowing ionized hydrogen, with a lower metallicity than the Milky Way, offering insights into early universe conditions.
N159 spans 230 light-years and hosts numerous young stars, some still forming, within a chaotic structure shaped by stellar winds and radiation. The observations allow astronomers to study star formation in environments similar to those of the early universe.
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