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Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Paul Morris: Lead Producer Thaddeus Cesari: ScriptDr. Michelle Thaller: NarratorMusic Credit:\"Looking to the Future\" by Carl David Harms [IMRO] via BBC Production Music [PRS], and Universal Production Music. || ", "hits": 52 }, { "id": 31304, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31304/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-08-06T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Take a Cosmic Road Trip this Summer with Chandra and Webb", "description": "Images combining data from NASA’s Chandra and Webb telescopes, of a cloud complex, a region of star formation, a spiral galaxy, and a galaxy cluster. || chandrawebb3-hw_print.jpg (1024x576) [176.0 KB] || chandrawebb3-hw_searchweb.png (320x180) [65.0 KB] || chandrawebb3-hw_thm.png (80x40) [6.0 KB] || chandrawebb3-hw.tif (5760x3240) [53.4 MB] || take-a-cosmic-road-trip-this-summer-with-chandra-and-webb.hwshow [311 bytes] || ", "hits": 75 }, { "id": 31286, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/31286/", "result_type": "Hyperwall Visual", "release_date": "2024-05-28T00:00:00-04:00", "title": "Webb Space Telescope Studies the Pillars of Creation", "description": "Webb MIRI ImageNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation strikes a chilling tone. Thousands of stars that exist in this region disappear – and seemingly endless layers of gas and dust become the centerpiece.The detection of dust by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is extremely important – dust is a major ingredient for star formation. Many stars are actively forming in these dense blue-gray pillars. When knots of gas and dust with sufficient mass form in these regions, they begin to collapse under their own gravitational attraction, slowly heat up – and eventually form new stars.Although the stars appear missing, they aren’t. Stars typically do not emit much mid-infrared light. Instead, they are easiest to detect in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light. In this MIRI view, two types of stars can be identified. The stars at the end of the thick, dusty pillars have recently eroded the material surrounding them. They show up in red because their atmospheres are still enshrouded in cloaks of dust. In contrast, blue tones indicate stars that are older and have shed most of their gas and dust.Mid-infrared light also details dense regions of gas and dust. The red region toward the top, which forms a delicate V shape, is where the dust is both diffuse and cooler. And although it may seem like the scene clears toward the bottom left of this view, the darkest gray areas are where densest and coolest regions of dust lie. Notice that there are many fewer stars and no background galaxies popping into view.Webb’s mid-infrared data will help researchers determine exactly how much dust is in this region – and what it’s made of. These details will make models of the Pillars of Creation far more precise. 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In this video, astronomers describe working with the telescope and how the images and data are collected. From first images to routine operations: experts at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD explain how the images are processed, and turned from raw data to the spectacular full-color images seen on the internet. || ", "hits": 99 }, { "id": 13599, "url": "https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13599/", "result_type": "Produced Video", "release_date": "2020-04-29T13:00:00-04:00", "title": "Hubble's Cosmic Reef Image Flyby", "description": "This science visualization presents the dramatic landscape of two nebulas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The video takes viewers on a close-up tour of the nebulas' three-dimensional structures, as deduced by scientists and artists. 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