Oh hi. My name is Kitty #733012. I can't wait to hear all about your favourite condiments! Mine are gravy and ranch dressing. My ideal partner is someone who would describe themselves as cynical. Was your dad a boxer? Because damn, you’re a knockout!

Uh, hi. My name is Kitty #766074. Did you know that veganaisse is actually a healthy part of every kitty's diet? Do you think my best colour is black or cerulean? Who am I kidding, I look great in everything. Are you a dictionary? Cause you’re adding meaning to my life.

Oh hi. My name is Kitty #766077. My entire life has been dedicated towards a single pursuit: so I could win a game of Monopoly. I can sing every Snoop Dogg song by heart. I'm actually thinking of starting a cover album. I’m lost. Can you give me directions to your heart?

Uh, hi. My name is Kitty #766079. You might not believe it, but I've seen a unicorn before, and it was actually very voluptuous. I've been trying to model my life after Hello Kitty, but most of the time all I can think about is ahi tuna. Was your dad a boxer? Because damn, you’re a knockout!

Oh, hello. My name is Kitty #766080. My entire life has been dedicated towards a single pursuit: for one more season of The Golden Girls. I can sing every Crazytown song by heart. I'm actually thinking of starting a cover album. You and I must have met in another life.

*winces*. My name is Kitty #766085. You might not believe it, but I've seen a sphinx before, and it was actually very energetic. I like to tell stories, which are often either dangerous or magnificent. I’m not a photographer, but I can picture me and you together.

Hallo. My name is Kitty #766086. I make a mean spicy salami casserole. I've been thinking of dying my fur magenta, what do you think? Is your name Google? Because you have everything I’ve been searching for.

Mahalo. My name is Kitty #766087. Being my friend means many days filled with hitting on yo' man. Do you think my best colour is cerulean or red? Who am I kidding, I look great in everything. I’m lost. Can you give me directions to your heart?

Jambo. My name is Kitty #766088. Did you know that mayonnaise is actually a healthy part of every kitty's diet? I really don't understand why everyone thinks I got my claws done, but it's not true. I'm all natural. Are you a dictionary? Cause you’re adding meaning to my life.

*waves*. My name is Kitty #766090. My favourite first date activity is tipping glasses of water over together. I've been trying to model my life after Pink Panther, but most of the time all I can think about is sausage links. Are you a parking ticket? ‘Cause you’ve got fine written all over you.

En Taro Adun. I'm Chairman Boopkey. Please take a seat. I used to love people-watching, until the accident. I also grow ghost peppers in my garden.

How's it going, my name is 🎗 Common Gen 1 Mewt, but I'll also respond to The Jonas Brothers. I'm really trying to become a master Cosmonaut. Spending my nights kickboxing probably isn't helping, though. Wanna hold hands?

Shalom. My name is Agent Jack Bauer, and my game is slacklining. I think me and King Louis XIV would get along just fine. Let's go invest in a condo together.

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Thousands of galaxies flood this near-infrared image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. High-resolution imaging from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combined with a natural effect known as gravitational lensing made this finely detailed image possible.

First, focus on the galaxies responsible for the lensing: the bright white elliptical galaxy at the center of the image and smaller white galaxies throughout the image. Bound together by gravity in a galaxy cluster, they are bending the light from galaxies that appear in the vast distances behind them. The combined mass of the galaxies and dark matter act as a cosmic telescope, creating magnified, contorted, and sometimes mirrored images of individual galaxies.

Clear examples of mirroring are found in the prominent orange arcs to the left and right of the brightest cluster galaxy. These are lensed galaxies – each individual galaxy is shown twice in one arc. Webb’s image has fully revealed their bright cores, which are filled with stars, along with orange star clusters along their edges.

Not all galaxies in this field are mirrored – some are stretched. Others appear scattered by interactions with other galaxies, leaving trails of stars behind them.

Webb has refined the level of detail we can observe throughout this field. Very diffuse galaxies appear like collections of loosely bound dandelion seeds aloft in a breeze. Individual “pods” of star formation practically bloom within some of the most distant galaxies – the clearest, most detailed views of star clusters in the early universe so far.

One galaxy speckled with star clusters appears near the bottom end of the bright central star’s vertical diffraction spike – just to the right of a long orange arc. The long, thin ladybug-like galaxy is flecked with pockets of star formation. Draw a line between its “wings” to roughly match up its star clusters, mirrored top to bottom. Because this galaxy is so magnified and its individual star clusters are so crisp, researchers will be able to study it in exquisite detail, which wasn’t previously possible for galaxies this distant.

The galaxies in this scene that are farthest away – the tiniest galaxies that are located well behind the cluster – look nothing like the spiral and elliptical galaxies observed in the local universe. They are much clumpier and more irregular. Webb’s highly detailed image may help researchers measure the ages and masses of star clusters within these distant galaxies. This might lead to more accurate models of galaxies that existed at cosmic “spring,” when galaxies were sprouting tiny “buds” of new growth, actively interacting and merging, and had yet to develop into larger spirals. Ultimately, Webb’s upcoming observations will help astronomers better understand how galaxies form and grow in the early universe.

NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.

For a full array of Webb’s first images and spectra, including downloadable files, please visit: https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images 

Credits:
IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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What looks much like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals previously obscured areas of star birth.

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, the region is actually the edge of a gigantic, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, roughly 7,600 light-years away. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. The high-energy radiation from these stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away.  

NIRCam – with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity – unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies. Several prominent features in this image are described below.

-- The “steam” that appears to rise from the celestial “mountains” is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to intense, ultraviolet radiation. 

-- Dramatic pillars rise above the glowing wall of gas, resisting the blistering ultraviolet radiation from the young stars.

-- Bubbles and cavities are being blown by the intense radiation and stellar winds of newborn stars.

-- Protostellar jets and outflows, which appear in gold, shoot from dust-enshrouded, nascent stars.

-- A “blow-out” erupts at the top-center of the ridge, spewing gas and dust into the interstellar medium. 

-- An unusual “arch” appears, looking like a bent-over cylinder.

This period of very early star formation is difficult to capture because, for an individual star, it lasts only about 50,000 to 100,000 years – but Webb’s extreme sensitivity and exquisite spatial resolution have chronicled this rare event.

Located roughly 7,600 light-years away, NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826. Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae. 

NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.

For a full array of Webb’s first images and spectra, including downloadable files, please visit: https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images 

Credits:
IMAGE: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

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