[HN Gopher] NASA's Next-Level Discovery: Webb Exposes Dazzling I...
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NASA's Next-Level Discovery: Webb Exposes Dazzling Interstellar Web
of Dust
Author : Brajeshwar
Score : 27 points
Date : 2025-01-18 15:00 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (scitechdaily.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (scitechdaily.com)
| perihelions wrote:
| Is there an animation or blink visualization of this time
| evolution?
| cwmoore wrote:
| There is an 11 second video across a few weeks embedded. From
| the caption:
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| "This time-lapse video using data from NASA's James Webb Space
| Telescope highlights the evolution of one light echo in the
| vicinity of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. A light echo is
| created when a star explodes or erupts, flashing light into
| surrounding clumps of interstellar dust and causing them to
| shine in an ever-expanding pattern."
| hinkley wrote:
| So what does this do to our estimates of the ratio of regular
| matter in the universe?
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