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Take a 3D tour of James Webb Space Telescope's view of the 'Cosmic Cliffs' of the Gum 31 nebula (part of the Carina Nebula Complex).

Credit:
Producer: Greg Bacon & Frank Summers (STScI), NASA’s Universe of Learning, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Visualization: Greg Bacon, Ralf Crawford, Joseph DePasquale, Leah Hustak, Danielle Kirshenblat, Christian Nieves, Joseph Olmsted, Alyssa Pagan, & Frank Summers (STScI)
Author of Original Release: Christine Pulliam
Narrator: Jacob Pinter
Support/Editor for Shortened Version: Paul Morris
Images: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSci

Music Credit:
"One Way Journey" by Timothy James Cormick [PRS], and Matthew Jacob Loveridge via BBC Production Music [PRS], and Universal Production Music.

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00:00In July 2022, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope made history, revealing a breathtaking view
00:07of a region now nicknamed the Cosmic Cliffs. This glittering landscape, captured in incredible
00:14detail, is part of the nebula GUM-31, a small piece of the vast Carina Nebula complex where
00:21stars are born amid clouds of gas and dust. What appear to be towering mountains and valleys
00:27are actually dust clouds shaped by powerful ultraviolet light and stellar winds from young
00:33stars in the nearby cluster NGC-3324. Above the cliffs, a giant bubble carved by these forces
00:41hints at the scale and energy of this dynamic region. The star cluster itself lies just beyond
00:47the frame. Mist-like streams seem to rise from the cliffs, but they're in fact wisps of gas
00:55and dust, blown away by relentless radiation. Look closely and you'll spot bright yellow
01:02streaks – jets of material from stars still forming deep within the cloud. This visualization
01:10brings Webb's iconic image to life, helping us imagine the true three-dimensional structure
01:16of the universe and our place within it.

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