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ALT Cover image for an educational kit on the topic of solar eclipses, made by the Cooperation through Education in Science and Astronomy Research (CESAR) team. From an open book a whole universe opens, depicting elements such as astronauts, rockets, the sun, planets, stars a book, a pencil, a magnifying glass etc.
ALT A field of galaxies against the black background of space. In the centre is a bright-white elliptical galaxy that is the core of the Abell S1063 galaxy cluster. Around the core are short, curved red lines, which are distant background galaxies magnified and warped by gravitational lensing. A couple of foreground stars appear large and bright with Webb’s signature eight-point diffraction spike pattern. Toward the very bottom, slightly off center toward the right, is a small red dot that is highlighted by an orange square outline. A larger orange square in the top right corner shows the object in more detail. The object, labeled “GLIMPSE-17775” looks like a fuzzy red dot with a yellow core.
ALT ESA DG Josef Aschbacher
ALT An area inside a star-forming molecular cloud. The background is covered with layers of gas and dust in blue, green and yellowish colours. Thicker clumps of cold dust, dark brown to black, block out light completely. Stars lie among and atop the clouds, from small orange ones to large white or blue ones. Waves and streams of glowing whitish gas are created by jets from protostars colliding with the surrounding material.
ALT The composite image shows three side-by-side maps of different chemical species. The maps are mostly red with a bright orange centre, resembling pixelated clouds glowing on a black background. From left to right they are labelled H2O (standing for water), CO2 (standing for carbon dioxide) and CH4 (standing for methane). Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Belyakov (Caltech), I. Wong (STScI), Image Processing: A. Pagan (STScI)
ALT Infographic presenting the four science instruments carried on the Smile spacecraft. At the centre of the infographic is an outline of the spacecraft with the instruments highlighted in blue. From each instrument a blue arrow points to a pop-out box, with an image depicting what the instrument will do. Below each pop-out image is a small text explaining whether the instrument is led by ESA or CAS, with a sentence explaining what the instrument will do.
ALT A large spiral galaxy. It is seen tilted at an angle, so that it is foreshortened and appears very wide. Its tightly-wound, blue spiral arms swirl out from its glowing centre, spreading apart at the tips. They are followed by strands and clumps of dark red dust, and spotted with pink dots where stars are forming in clouds of gas. The galaxy is surrounded by a slight glow and lies on a dark background. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Thilker and the MAUVE-HST Team
ALT Image showing hundreds of bright objects of different size, colour, and shape on the black background of space. Three objects in the centre are called out with small white boxes. These are labeled QSO1A, QSO1B, and QSO1C. At the centre of each box is a tiny, circular red dot. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, L. Furtak (Ben-Gurion University), R. Maiolino (Cambridge), F. D'Eugenio (Cambridge), I. Juodžbalis (Cambridge), H. Übler (MPE), C. Marconcini (University of Florence). Image processing: A. Pagan
