How is the James Webb Space Telescope different from the Hubble Space Telescope? Professor Danielle Wood of MIT uses stunning images of cosmic cliffs to explain.

Watch the full video ( https://youtu.be/PBZ7GJHFcLc ) of Danielle Wood, an MIT professor and aerospace engineer, with Sarah Jeffreson, an astronomer at the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University.

When NASA released its long-awaited first four images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), people were immediately captivated by the cosmic cliffs. The magnificent gas clouds that look like rocks cut into a cosmic setting are part of the Carina 7 nebula, 600 light years away. But what exactly is happening in this iconic image captured in infrared light by the $10 billion space telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam)? The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen star nursery in sharp resolution and the telescope's unrivaled sensitivity has also revealed hundreds of previously hidden stars with numerous galaxies in the background.

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