Get ready to #UnfoldTheUniverse today and tomorrow, July 12 at 10:30 AM ET! ✨ Stephan’s Quintet: About 290 mil light-years away, Stephan’s Quintet is located in the constellation Pegasus. It was the first compact galaxy group ever discovered in 1787. 4 of the 5 galaxies repeated close encounters with each other due to gravity. ✨ Carina Nebula: One of the largest and brightest nebulae in the sky, is located approx. 7,600 light-years away in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to many massive stars, several times larger than the Sun. ✨ WASP-96b: Discovered in 2014, WASP-96b is a giant exoplanet composed mainly of gas, orbiting its home-star every 3.4 days. It has about half the mass of Jupiter and is nearly 1,150 light-years from Earth. ✨ Southern Ring Nebula: The Southern Ring, or “Eight-Burst” Nebula, is a planetary nebula – an expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star. It is nearly half a light-year in diameter and is located in the Vela constellation, approx. 2,000 light years away from Earth. ✨ SMACS 0723: Located in the constellation Volens, this massive galaxy cluster magnify and distort the light of objects behind them, giving us a deep field view into both the extremely distant and faint galaxy populations. SMACS stands for Southern MAssive Cluster Survey. (Credit: ESA, STSci/HST Heritage, NASA, Rice CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) #JWST #StephansQuintet #CarinaNebula #WASP96b #SouthernRingNebula #SMACS0723 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf37sDdO1fc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
