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Carina Nebula’s wild tendrils star in extraordinary image of stars being born – CNET

A sharply detailed new view of a stellar nursery gives a preview of what we can expect from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

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The Gemini South Telescope delivered this view of the western wall of the Carina Nebula thanks to adaptive optics.
International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA
The birth of stars is a gassy and dusty affair, but it’s also visually glorious. A new image from the Gemini South telescope in Chile brings the stellar nursery of the Carina Nebula into startlingly sharp focus. 
Astronomers are looking to the Carina Nebula to learn more about star formation. The image released Monday shows an int…

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