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Kelly Lepo (kellylepo@astrodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 03:01:05 JST Kelly Lepo

Babe, wake up, a new #JWST image just dropped.
Light from the protostar L1527 escapes above and below an edge-on protoplanetary disk (the dark line at the center of the image), creating an hourglass shape. This illuminates the cavities carved as ejected material from the star collides with the surrounding, dusty nebula.
Dust scatters shorter wavelengths of light, so blue areas are where the dust is thinner and orange areas are where the dust is more dense.
https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-055
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1. A forming protostar surrounded by a large hourglass-shaped nebula. A bright orange object, the protostar, lies at the center of this image. In front of the protostar is a thin grey line, which is the protostar’s accretion disk. Above the protostar is an orange, triangular cloud of gas that points to the top left of the image. The area closest to the protostar is a brighter orange than the area to the top left, and has more pronounced plumes of orange gas. Below the protostar is another triangular cloud of gas that points to the bottom right of the image. The area closest to the protostar is a blend of pronounced blue and orange plumes of gas. Farther toward the bottom right, the color of the gas turns primarily blue. Stars and galaxies of many different shapes and sizes are scattered around the image, although they are noticeably more absent on the left side of the hourglass.
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  Puniko ? (puniko@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Thursday, 17-Nov-2022 03:01:27 JST Puniko ?
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  @kellylepo@astrodon.social damn, thats a beautiful shot :blobcataww:
  
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