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A place to discuss the documentary series Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
Jun 13, 2024 · The region has been studied since the 1970s with at least five telescopes, but it took Webb’s unprecedented resolution and specialized instruments to reveal that what researchers long thought was one of the stars, WL 20S, is actually a pair that formed about 2 million to 4 million years ago.
Jun 24, 2024 · A zoomed-in detail of newly discovered star clusters within the Cosmic Gems galaxy. This is the first discovery of star clusters in an infant galaxy less than 500 million years after the Big Bang.
Jun 26, 2024 · Finger-like structures larger than the solar system protrude from the tops of the pillars. Within these fingers can be embedded, embryonic stars. The tallest pillar stretches across three light-years, three-quarters of the distance between our Sun and the next nearest star. The movie takes visitors into the three-dimensional structures of the ...
Jun 25, 2024 · More specifically, these five early star clusters can show where stars formed and how they were distributed during the infancy of the cosmos.