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Hubble Captures Unique Ultraviolet View of a Spectacular Star Cluster by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

A starry night sky and and an atmospheric glow

A new eye-catching compilation of images is being released that features data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory along with a host of other telescopes including NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

M67 by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Views the Dawn of a Sun-like Star by NASA Hubble Space Telescope

Peering Into the Tendrils of NGC 604 with NASA’s Webb by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

NGC 1512 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Webb refined our view of a star system called Apep, named after the Egyptian god of chaos. Apep was thought to consist solely of two Wolf-Rayet stars, which are a rare class of massive, evolved, luminous stars. Only 1000 are estimated to exist in our galaxy, out of hundreds of billions. To have found a system with two of them is exceedingly rare, and it’s the only known one in our galaxy.