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Look Up: How is it we are here?

IMAGE OF THE Crab Nebula by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) reveals new details in infrared light. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim (Princeton University).

Joni Mitchell in the last verse of her song Woodstock writes: “We are stardust, billion-year-old carbon.” Our solar system along with distant stars brimming with exoplanets were formed from gases and dust.

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