some good stuff from jwst...
more near infrared outer solar system portraits to go along with neptune, uranus, and jupiter...saturn's turn. the reason the planet looks so dark compared to the rings is the composition - the planet has a lot of methane which absorbs infrared light while the rings are made up of a lot of ice and dust which do not.
here's a supernova in mid-infrared from 22 million light years away. some of these observations are supporting the theories that supernovae provided a substantial source of early universe dust that was so critical to its evolution.
below is some spectroscopy on the now famous ancient galaxies recently discovered showing tell tale signs of black holes with a mass similar to the one at the center of the milky way. these are galaxies that formed and existed only about a billion years after the big bang in the era of reionization so pretty remarkable. the researchers that discovered these two black holes are at the university of texas.
this is the rho ophiuchi cloud complex which is the closest star formation region to us. lots of baby stars visible if you zoom in with protoplanetary disks that will eventually become solar systems. perhaps the great programmer has a sense of humor as it looks like south austin's mom's clitoral hood over a gaping vagina to me spurring life to me.
this is a phenomenal, phenomenal picture of two stars in their early formation stage in near infrared. the disk of gas surrounding them is still adding to their mass as they grow. the big lobes around them are prior ejections of gas from the stars' formations. that happens when the star effectively "eats" too much material too fast and start spinning too fast, they eject out the material through two sided jets which helps normalize the star's spin and regulating how much mass the star retains.
also, if you haven't noticed it yet on netflix, definitely recommend unknown: cosmic time machine. https://www.netflix.com/title/81473680