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NASA’s Webb Telescope Cracks a 40-Year-Old Space Mystery

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The compound “is the heart of much of interstellar chemistry.”

Tony Ho Tran

Published Jun. 26 2023 12:14PM EDT

A nebula made of many layers of cloudy, colourful material. The top-left side of the image is brightly lit, filled with wispy, thin material in pale shades of pink and blue. A thick bar of denser, cloudier material crosses diagonally at the bottom right. — ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), the PDRs4All ERS Team

Tony Ho Tran

Tony Ho Tran

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