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Jamie Carter

James Webb telescope's 'starlit mountaintop' could be the observatory's best image yet — Space photo of the week

A JWST image of a star cluster with sparkling stars and cloudy rainbow colors.
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What it is: Pismis 24, a young star cluster

Where it is: 5,500 light-years away, in the constellation Scorpius

When it was shared: Sept. 4, 2025

A craggy mountain peak, a tower, perhaps even a finger — in this new celestial dreamscape from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), something seems to be pointing at a cluster of bright stars above, as if a stargazing session were going on deep in the Milky Way.

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