Zoom video: N159
In this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, we visit a turbulent cauldron of star formation to see what is brewing inside dense clumps of gas. This is a star-forming region named LHA 120-N 159, or simply N159, located 161 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. This image spans about 230 light years across.
Learn more about this image here.
ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, ESO, CTIO, SMASH, N. Bartmann, E. Sabbi, D. Nidever, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, N. T. Rector, D. de Martin, M. Zamani
Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
About the Video
| Id: | potm2610c | |
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| Release date: | 22 October 2026, 10:00 | |
| Duration: | 01 m 00 s | |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps | |
