NASA’s Webb telescope provides look at distant star-forming region

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NASA and the European Space Agency released a colorful new image of a star-forming region captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

The picture of nebula N79, released on Tuesday, was captured with the telescope’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument and shows the complex region, which spans 1,630 light-years, according to the ESA.

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