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The James Webb Space Telescope has just completed a successful first year of science. Let’s celebrate by seeing the birth of Sun-like stars in this brand-new image from the Webb telescope!

This is a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. At 390 light-years away, it's the closest star-forming region to Earth. There are around 50 young stars here, all of them similar in mass to the Sun, or smaller. The darkest areas are the densest, where thick dust cocoons still-forming protostars. Huge red bipolar jets of molecular hydrogen dominate the image, appearing horizontally across the upper third and vertically on the right. These occur when a star first bursts through its natal envelope of cosmic dust, shooting out a pair of opposing jets into space like a newborn first stretching her arms out into the world. In contrast, the star S1 has carved out a glowing cave of dust in the lower half of the image. It is the only star in the image that is significantly more massive than the Sun.

Thanks to Webb’s sensitive instruments, we get to witness moments like this at the beginning of a star’s life. One year in, Webb’s science mission is only just getting started. The second year of observations has already been selected, with plans to build on an exciting first year that exceeded expectations. Here’s to many more years of scientific discovery with Webb.

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Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)

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Setsuko Hara in Akira Kurosawa‘s No Regrets For Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi, 1946)

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Out 1 [noli me tangere] (Jacques Rivette, 1971)

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Current headspace is confusing, but there's light.

(一一, Yī Yī ), 楊德昌; Edward Yang, 2000

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Yi Yi , Edward Yang , 2000.

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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000)

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Golden Eighties (Chantal Akerman, 1986)

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TOKYO TWILIGHT (1957) 東京暮色 dir. Yasujirō Ozu

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Films watched in 2019.

#334: O Estranho Caso de Angélica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010)

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“Strange things are happening. You might even call it witchcraft.���

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Egon Schiele - Houses with Laundry (Suburb II) (1914)

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Shirley Lewitt by Andre de Dienes

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A photo by Mario Cattaneo, Naples, 1954

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Teatro Tivoli, Mexico City, 1952, photo by Earl Leaf

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Irving Browning. Flatiron Building, northern edge between Broadway and Fifth Avenue, New York City. 1930s

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The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman (1957)