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Sirius: the coruscating jewel of the northern winter night sky 😍

Taken solely with my iPhone. See the following toot for details & have a go yourselves 🙂👍

#Astronomy #Astrodon #Space #SpaceScience #Photography #Astrophotography #LightPainting


Thanks for all the lovely attention & comments on our NASA/ESA/CSA #JWST image of HH212 yesterday, & welcome to everyone newly following.

On this wet, windy Sunday afternoon, I thought I'd combine all four of our recently-released JWST Cycle 1 star formation images into one post & mini-thread.

Namely the short- & long-wavelength mosaics of the inner Orion Nebula & Trapezium Cluster, and the protostellar flows HH211 & HH212.

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#Astronomy #SpaceScience #Astrodon #StarFormation


Morning.

Here it is, several thousand years in the making: the protostellar jet HH212 as seen in the infrared by #JWST.

We discovered this jet in 1993, glowing in the light of shocked molecular hydrogen at 2.12 microns, as gas emerges symmetrically at about 100 km/s from the two poles of a young protostar not far from the Horsehead Nebula in Orion.

Our new JWST image spans six wavelengths & is ten times sharper than any previous infrared image.

#Astronomy #SpaceScience #Astrodon

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Well, isn’t that lovely: our JWST image of the inner Orion Nebula & Trapezium Cluster is today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day 🖖🙂🤘

Thanks to everyone who’s sharing the images & don’t forget that you can download them at full resolution under a CC BY-SA licence via the link in the next toot 👇

#Astronomy #Astrodon #APOD #SpaceScience #JWST #Orion #JuMBOs

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231010.html


As promised, some more #JWST loveliness today.

Our paper on the HH211 protostellar outflow, with Tom Ray of Dublin as first author, is in this week’s print edition of Nature 👍

And … we have the front cover, the first time a JWST science image has featured there, we think 🎉🙇‍♂️

I made this new version of the image in my Reykjavík hotel room last week & while travelling home 😬

Quite proud of it – enjoy 🖖🙂🤘

#Astrodon #SpaceScience #SpaceRocks

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06551-1


It's paper time!

The first results from my #JWST time, in a project shared with Tom Ray et al. from the MIRI consortium, a study of the extremely young protostellar outflow, HH211, in Perseus, published in advance form in Nature today.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06551-1

Here's the headline image, a composite of three of the NIRCam filters we used.

#Astrodon #SpaceScience


Whooohoooo 🎉

The #ESA #Euclid launch kit is live! Look at the amazing work my graphics colleagues have done - and be excited for the cool science Euclid will make possible very soon.

Find the whole launch kit here:

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/Euclid_launch_kit

And the extremely cool graphics here:

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Sets/Euclid_launch_kit_infographics/(result_type)/images

#astrodon #astronomy #cosmology #scicomm


Our #JWST rocky exoplanet team is back with a new result:

Water Vapor in the data of warm rocky planet! 💦

But is it from the planet's atmosphere or cool star spots on the star?? 🌎 🤔 🔴

Read the article here and stay tuned for a thread ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-120

#Astronomy #Astrodon #Exoplanets #Astrophysics #Science

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