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Congrats to the whole @EuropaClipper team on a successful launch! We'll wave as you fly by on the way out to your planetary front row seat. We're so happy and not at all jealous 😜

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Imagine a sky full of hundreds of stars as bright as the full moon… If our solar system were a part of this “super star” cluster, that is what we might experience. Here is Webb’s look at Westerlund 1, one of the closest clusters of its kind. https://t.co/LyphCSpnwhhttps://t.co/kGFdvo2MLV

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Chris Gunn's photography on Webb was stellar! ✨ Check out some of our fav Chris Gunn photos of Webb's journey to space here: https://t.co/8h4g2ydjWE

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Centaurs are objects in orbital flux: small and icy, pushed inward of Neptune by its gravity, not quite comets...yet. Webb mapped gases spewing from Centaur 29P in high detail, providing new insights into the formation and evolution of the solar system. https://t.co/iQovSOJLkphttps://t.co/96nOOlnp8

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A New H0pe? Scientists are using Webb to measure the expansion of the universe, by pointing it at a gravitationally lensed supernova, SN H0pe. The light from this exploding star has been bent and magnified by a galaxy cluster between it and us. https://t.co/QGLdzBmeDYhttps://t.co/Nbd3OdhOmU

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Also, within those 1000 days, we launched Webb, commissioned it, and saw it safely to its home at the second Lagrange point! 🚀

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Today is Webb’s 1000th day in space! 🎉 Our #UnfoldTheUniverse "Lifer" checklist: A spacecraft impacting an asteroid Unexpected dust (supernova remnants and early galaxies) Exoplanets atmospheres Early black holes The farthest galaxy (so far!) What's your fav discovery?

An artist's depiction of Webb floats above Webb imagery that spells out the number 1000 against a black backdrop of galaxies and stars in blue and orange. The number one is a stretched out, orange, lensed galaxy. The first zero is the Southern Ring Nebula, with a roughly circular cavity filled with aqua-colored gas surrounded by a ring of red gas, with a star at the center. The second zero is a mid-infrared image of merging galaxy pair Arp 107, like a ghostly blue wagon-wheel with a bright center. The final zero is Jupiter, striped in grayish blue and beige with green and orange glows at the poles due to auroras.
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Other observatories have captured this galaxy pair. Left: a visible-light beauty shot by @NASAHubble. Right: Infrared Spitzer showcases the difference in ages of the stars in these galaxies. Older stars are in blue (3.6 microns) and clumps of young stars in pink (8 microns).

A pair of merging galaxies. The galaxy on the left has a single, large spiral arm curving out from the core and around to below it, with very visible glowing dust and gas. The right-hand galaxy has a bright core but only a bit of very faint material. A broad curtain of gas connects the two galaxies’ cores and hangs beneath them. A few small stars and galaxies are scattered around the black background.
Spitzer’s infrared image is more diffused than either Hubble or Webb. Just right of center is a bright red dot, which is the center of the spiral galaxy. It is surrounded by a reddish ring, which are the galaxy’s arms. The gap (here at top right) is bordered by two reddish pockets of dust and gas. The smaller galaxy is at top left. It’s a bright blue dot surrounded by light blue haze. Background galaxies and stars are hazy blue dots.
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Webb’s mid-infrared observations show star-forming regions and dust, as well as the large spiral galaxy’s bright nucleus. Near-infrared data (this image) highlights the stars within the colliding galaxies, as well as the translucent bridge of stars being pulled from them both.

A pair of interacting galaxies. The larger of the two galaxies is slightly right of center, and composed of a hazy, bright, white center and a ring of gaseous filaments, which are different shades of white with some pink higlights. Toward the bottom left and bottom right of the ring are filaments of gas spiraling inward toward the core. At the top left of the ring is a noticeable gap, bordered by two pinkish orange pockets of dust and gas. The smaller galaxy to its left is made of hazy white gas and dust, which becomes more diffuse farther away from its center. To this galaxy’s bottom left, there is a smaller, more diffuse gas cloud that wafts outward toward the edges. Many red, orange, and white background galaxies are spread throughout, with some hazier in composition and others having more defined spiral patterns.
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On Wednesdays we wear pink. 💖 Arp 107, an interacting galaxy pair, was captured by Webb in both the near and mid-infrared, the latter represented in pinkish hues. What does each infrared wavelength tell us? ⬇️ https://go.nasa.gov/3Ba9293

A pair of interacting galaxies. The larger of the two galaxies is slightly right of center, and composed of a hazy, bright, white center and a ring of gaseous filaments, which are different shades of red and orange. Toward the bottom left and bottom right of the ring are filaments of gas spiraling inward toward the core. At the top left of the ring is a noticeable gap, bordered by two large, orange pockets of dust and gas. The smaller galaxy to its left is made of hazy white gas and dust, which becomes more diffuse farther away from its center. To this galaxy’s bottom left, there is a smaller, more diffuse gas cloud that wafts outward toward the edges. Many red, orange, and white background galaxies are spread throughout, with some hazier in composition and others having more defined spiral patterns.
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