The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on N79, a 1,630-light-year-wide star birthing complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud, to produce a stunning image.
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Astronomers know that stars form when clouds of gas and dust collapse under their own gravity but they do not fully understand the many details of the process. How many stars are born out of a cloud? How big are they? How many stars will have planets?