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Deep Dive: Webb image reveals young stars brewing in a nebulous cauldron

Ran in the 6:05 PM edition of LivePulse, Thursday, October 22, 2026
Original reporting: Phys.org Space, 2026-10-22

In this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, we visit a turbulent cauldron of star formation to see what is brewing inside dense clumps of gas. This is a star-forming region named LHA 120-N 159, or simply N159, located 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy.

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