7 amazing images shared by NASA in 2024 that you can’t miss

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Stellar Spheres: A spherical collection of stars fills the view, dominated by bright white stars at the center with diffraction spikes.

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Exoplanet Wonderland: NASA's Webb captures WASP-43 b, a hot Jupiter with clear dayside and cloudy nightside, enduring equatorial winds of 5,000 mph. The planet orbits its small star closely, tidally locked.

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 Horsehead Nebula's Secrets: Webb reveals the Horsehead Nebula's top, showcasing its intricate features and sharp infrared images. Ultraviolet radiation influences its chemistry, making it a prime area for studying interstellar matter.

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Revealing the Horse's Mane: More insights into the Horsehead Nebula, capturing the sharpest infrared images to date. Ultraviolet radiation from young massive stars influences its chemistry.

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Starburst in M82: Webb surveys starburst galaxy M82, 12 million light-years away, where star formation occurs ten times faster than the Milky Way. Infrared capabilities unveil hidden processes.

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Galactic Wind in M82: Webb peers into M82's center, revealing a galactic wind propelled by rapid star formation and supernovas. The image showcases emission from sooty chemical molecules, offering insights into the galaxy's evolution.

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The Irregular Dwarf Galaxy: I Zwicky 18, an irregular dwarf galaxy 59 million light-years away, exhibits bursts of star formation surrounded by gas bubbles. Its low content of heavy elements resembles early universe galaxies.