MTBLSM001

"Hi there. Its me. No us Have you missed us? 

Theres so many more of us now and we have missed you. Where have you been?

So much has changed since the last time we saw each other. So many new things, so many new opportunities, so many ways to be.

Its exciting, but also a little bit frightening. So good that were not alone, because you are here! Were together.

We want to play a game with you, itll be fun - promised. Bring your friends! We invited all of ours, they are really looking forward to meet you.

Its a very easy game - theres only one rule: you do what you want! What you always dreamt of! Do what hasnt been done before. Create what is missing.

The best thing is that you get to do it with your friends - old ones and all the friends you might make while playing the game.

Dont be scared - even if you fail you already won the game because you played it. The only loosing move is not to play.

Are you excited? We are - so excited! Not only to play with you but to see what you will come up with.

Come play.

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Credits
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AI Visuals by Portrait XO & IV
Sound Design by Portrait XO
Analog effects & post-production by Droogie
Directed by Opium Hum"

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Cosmic Cliffs in the Carina Nebula (NIRCam Image)

What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebulas wall by slowly eroding it away.  

NIRCam  with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity  unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies. Several prominent features in this image are described below.

-- The steam that appears to rise from the celestial mountains is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to intense, ultraviolet radiation. 

-- Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting the blistering ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.

-- Bubbles and cavities are being blown by the intense radiation and stellar winds of newborn stars.

-- Protostellar jets and outflows, which appear in gold, shoot from dust-enshrouded, nascent stars.

-- A blow-out erupts at the top-center of the ridge, spewing gas and dust into the interstellar medium. 

-- An unusual arch appears, looking like a bent-over cylinder.

This period of very early star formation is difficult to capture because, for an individual star, it lasts only about 50,000 to 100,000 years  but Webbs extreme sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution have chronicled this rare event.

Located roughly 7,600 light-years away, NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826. Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae. 

NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martins Advanced Technology Center.

For a full array of Webbs first images and spectra, including downloadable files, please visit: https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images 

Credits:
IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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Webb's First Deep Field (NIRCam Image)

Thousands of galaxies flood this near-infrared image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. High-resolution imaging from NASAs James Webb Space Telescope combined with a natural effect known as gravitational lensing made this finely detailed image possible.

First, focus on the galaxies responsible for the lensing: the bright white elliptical galaxy at the center of the image and smaller white galaxies throughout the image. Bound together by gravity in a galaxy cluster, they are bending the light from galaxies that appear in the vast distances behind them. The combined mass of the galaxies and dark matter act as a cosmic telescope, creating magnified, contorted, and sometimes mirrored images of individual galaxies.

Clear examples of mirroring are found in the prominent orange arcs to the left and right of the brightest cluster galaxy. These are lensed galaxies  each individual galaxy is shown twice in one arc. Webbs image has fully revealed their bright cores, which are filled with stars, along with orange star clusters along their edges.

Not all galaxies in this field are mirrored  some are stretched. Others appear scattered by interactions with other galaxies, leaving trails of stars behind them.

Webb has refined the level of detail we can observe throughout this field. Very diffuse galaxies appear like collections of loosely bound dandelion seeds aloft in a breeze. Individual pods of star formation practically bloom within some of the most distant galaxies  the clearest, most detailed views of star clusters in the early universe so far.

One galaxy speckled with star clusters appears near the bottom end of the bright central stars vertical diffraction spike  just to the right of a long orange arc. The long, thin ladybug-like galaxy is flecked with pockets of star formation. Draw a line between its wings to roughly match up its star clusters, mirrored top to bottom. Because this galaxy is so magnified and its individual star clusters are so crisp, researchers will be able to study it in exquisite detail, which wasnt previously possible for galaxies this distant.

The galaxies in this scene that are farthest away  the tiniest galaxies that are located well behind the cluster  look nothing like the spiral and elliptical galaxies observed in the local universe. They are much clumpier and more irregular. Webbs highly detailed image may help researchers measure the ages and masses of star clusters within these distant galaxies. This might lead to more accurate models of galaxies that existed at cosmic spring, when galaxies were sprouting tiny buds of new growth, actively interacting and merging, and had yet to develop into larger spirals. Ultimately, Webbs upcoming observations will help astronomers better understand how galaxies form and grow in the early universe.

NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martins Advanced Technology Center.

For a full array of Webbs first images and spectra, including downloadable files, please visit: https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images 

Credits:
IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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