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James Webb Space Telescope learns how a cosmic phoenix cools off to birth stars

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A purple blob (the same image as header) that shows were the cooling gas is located, as seen by the JWST, and where the jet inflated bubbles are inflated, as seen by other telescopes. Both are in the middle of the purple blob, but the bubbles region is slightly lower.

How do you cool down a phoenix? I don’t mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a cosmic namesake with a fittingly fiery nature. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may finally have the answer. They used the powerful instrument to investigate the extreme cooling of gas in the Phoenix … Read more