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Life's Rich Pageant
Color Star Is Circling The Color Drain
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Chris Thompson
November 17, 2023
Life's Rich Pageant
A Comprehensive And Maddening History Of Color Star, Would-Be Titans Of Just About Anything
385
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Chris Thompson
January 7, 2025
The Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock
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Soccer
The Color Star Cup Runneth Over
146
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Dan McQuade
January 4, 2023
Capital
Color Star Makes Its Next Big Move, Teams Up With Max Payne, Johnny Blaze, And Elizabeth
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Chris Thompson
July 14, 2023
Life's Rich Pageant
Color Star’s Metaverse Adventure Continues With Promise To Make Smart Phones
190
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Chris Thompson
September 27, 2022
Life's Rich Pageant
Oh No, Sir Lucas Capetian Is Out As CEO At Color Star
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Chris Thompson
June 21, 2022
MLB
The Defector World Series MVP Is The Gink
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Lauren Theisen
November 2, 2023
Capital
Concrete-Company-Turned-Metaverse Now Promoting A Hook-Up For “Human Cloned Organs”
341
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Chris Thompson
March 23, 2022
Life's Rich Pageant
Where Is The Metaverse App The Sixers Were So Honored To Promote?
216
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
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Chris Thompson
February 1, 2022
NBA
76ers New Metaverse Partner Somehow Getting Weirder
348
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Chris Thompson
January 5, 2022
Life's Rich Pageant
My Journey Into The Color World
216
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Dan McQuade
February 7, 2022
Life's Rich Pageant
Metaverse Company Blames Unlikely Third Party For Recent Misfortunes Following Termination Of 76ers Partnership [Update]
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Chris Thompson
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
January 19, 2022
NBA
76ers Partner Company: We’ll Try To Plug Ben Simmons Into The Metaverse
217
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Dan McQuade
January 13, 2022
NBA
What The Hell Is This Company The 76ers Just Partnered With?
369
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
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Chris Thompson
December 23, 2021
Arts And Culture
No One Needed The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show To Come Back
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
October 17, 2024
Funbag
End Play-Clock Abuse!
686
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Drew Magary
January 14, 2025
Arts And Culture
The Forbidden Worlds Of Toshiko Takaezu
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Sabrina Imbler
April 17, 2024
Journalismism
Beyoncé Comes Off As Very Real And Human In Email Interview With GQ
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Israel Daramola
September 10, 2024
Life Lessons
Look Up!
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Barry Petchesky
January 5, 2025
Creaturefector
Honey, They Yassified A Kākāpō!
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Sabrina Imbler
March 12, 2024
Creaturefector
Blob-Headed Fish Sets New Standard Of Fishy Blobbiness
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Sabrina Imbler
December 20, 2024
Podcasts
There’s No Rutgers Football In The Champagne Room
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David Roth
October 24, 2024
The Backlog
‘Warcraft III: Reforged’ Was A Greedy Debacle
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Luis Paez-Pumar
February 7, 2025
Defector At The Movies
Please Do Not Strive For Documentary Realism In A Movie (Spoiler Alert) Where A Huge Worm Bursts Out Of A Man’s Eye-Socket
104
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Chris Thompson
May 23, 2024
Arts And Culture
What Makes Hockey Hockey?
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Lauren Theisen
May 20, 2024
Science
Fall Into The Whirlpool Galaxy
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Barry Petchesky
December 31, 2023
The Fights
Canelo Álvarez No Longer Cares About Showcasing His Greatness
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Owen Lewis
September 12, 2024
College Basketball
Kara Lawson And Duke Get Revenge With A Conference Title
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
March 10, 2025
MLB
The Mets Are Worse Than Bad. They’re Tedious
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Lauren Theisen
May 22, 2024
MLB
There Was A Time When Everyone Cared How Pete Rose Smelled
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Dan McQuade
October 2, 2024
Defector Reads A Book
Find A Job You Enjoy, And You’ll Never Have A Day Off In Your Life
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
September 18, 2024
Wings Week
How I Learned To Moth And Embrace The Dark
It’s like birding, but for moths.
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Sabrina Imbler
July 18, 2024
WNBA
Marina Mabrey Does Not See Her Future In Connecticut
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
February 20, 2025
Olympics
In Street Skateboarding’s Second Olympics, Japan Cements Itself On Top
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Israel Daramola
July 30, 2024
Zillowing Out
A $2 Million Home With Soaring Views
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Kelsey McKinney
July 20, 2024
NFL
Jared Goff Threw Five Interceptions And None Of Them Mattered
140
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Lauren Theisen
November 11, 2024
Tennis
The Australian Open Is Happy And Hot
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Owen Lewis
January 27, 2025
Arts And Culture
A Disney World Pervert’s Take On: The Shitcanning Of Disney CEO Bob Chapek
396
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Chris Thompson
November 21, 2022
Arts And Culture
‘The Village’ Still Has Questions To Ask
126
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Nicholas Russell
December 6, 2024
College Basketball
John Feinstein Never Stopped Doing Everything
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Dave McKenna
March 14, 2025
Podcasts
Getting Slightly Too French With It, With Patrick Redford
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David Roth
August 1, 2024
Creaturefector
This Saber-Toothed Kitten Mummy Is So Stinking Cute That I’m Gonna Cry!
52
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Sabrina Imbler
November 20, 2024
Pro Wrestling
Flaws Can Make A Wrestler Feel Real
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Lauren Theisen
July 30, 2024
MLB
Bryce Harper Is A Bargain
144
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Dan McQuade
October 8, 2024
MLB
John Flaherty And The Yankees Would Both Like That Inning Back
123
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Barry Petchesky
July 17, 2023
Music
What Is An Industry Plant Anyway?
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Israel Daramola
March 21, 2025
Jamboroo
The 2024 NFL Season Is A Hater’s Paradise
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Drew Magary
October 17, 2024
NFL
The NFL Draft Is Sicko Prom
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Ray Ratto
April 25, 2024
Arts And Culture
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Lauren Theisen
November 14, 2024
The Fights
Tyson/Paul Was A Boxing Match That Felt Like Netflix
178
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David Roth
November 17, 2024
Creaturefector
It’s Time For God’s Ugliest Little Bugs To Be Represented In The Beautiful Tradition Of Haiku
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Sabrina Imbler
April 4, 2024
Soccer
Marc Guéhi Avoids Punishment For Twice Undermining Premier League’s LGBT Campaign
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Luis Paez-Pumar
December 4, 2024
MLB
Willie Mays Was Baseball
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Ray Ratto
June 19, 2024
Chess
The Clouds Have Gathered Over The World Chess Championship
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Ben Tippett
November 22, 2024
MLB
Nothing Is Promised, Even For The Orioles
116
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David Roth
October 13, 2023
Pro Wrestling
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Lauren Theisen
March 4, 2024
Olympics
Who Is 3×3 Olympic Basketball For?
107
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Patrick T. Dorsey
August 12, 2024
Science
The Settlement For Henrietta Lacks’s Family Is Momentous, But It’s Just One Step
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Sabrina Imbler
August 3, 2023
Under The Influence
A Capsule Wardrobe Won’t Save You
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
December 17, 2024
This Is So Stupid
The Toni Morrison Rest Stop That Never Was
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Dan McQuade
February 9, 2024
Arts And Culture
When Quiet Luxury Gets Loud
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Alex Sujong Laughlin
October 2, 2024
Racing
A Timely And Frankly Too Thorough 2025 Formula 1 Season Preview
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Kathryn Xu
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Luis Paez-Pumar
March 14, 2025
Arts And Culture
Eagles Win Loan Of Manet Painting In Super Bowl Bet, Which Is What This Thing Was About All Along
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Dan McQuade
February 14, 2025
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The Secret Life Of A Tiny Flower
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Sabrina Imbler
April 18, 2024
Funbag
Road Grays Are Dogshit
560
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Drew Magary
March 5, 2024
Life's Rich Pageant
A Very Ugly Year In The Life Of A D.C. Little League
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Dave McKenna
October 4, 2024
NFL
Never Count Out Touchdown Tommy
176
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David Roth
December 13, 2023
MLB
What Is Baseball History For?
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Steven Goldman
January 16, 2023
TV
Why ‘The Other Two’ Is So Good
92
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Soraya Roberts
June 5, 2023
TV
The Star Of ‘Swarm’ Stings, Even When The Show Doesn’t
22
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Israel Daramola
March 21, 2023
Pro Wrestling
Go See Your Guys Live
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Lauren Theisen
July 1, 2024
Funbag
What Makes A Power Ballad?
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Drew Magary
June 11, 2024
Mods Asleep
I Will Never Abandon My Special Little Drink
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B.D. McClay
May 30, 2024
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‘Stereophonic’ Is “The Fleetwood Mac Play” And So Much Better For It
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Lauren Theisen
November 8, 2023
Arts And Culture
Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘’Tis The Season To Be Irish’
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Dave McKenna
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Sabrina Imbler
, and
Leigh McKenna
December 3, 2024
Defector At The Movies
The Survival Of Independent Cinema Begins With The Belief Of Those Who Make It
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Corey Atad
October 20, 2023
Arts And Culture
Of Course My Favorite TV Host Is An Asshole
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Soraya Roberts
March 15, 2024
Pro Wrestling
Some Wrestling Matches I Liked In 2024
54
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Lauren Theisen
December 30, 2024
Food
The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Attempts Another Almost-Grand Finale
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Kelsey McKinney
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Chris Thompson
December 4, 2024
Jamboroo
Bill Belichick Is Going Out The Way He Came In
428
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Drew Magary
October 12, 2023
Arts And Culture
The Narrative Is All That Matters
247
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Kelsey McKinney
December 24, 2024
NFL
My Newborn Son Is Already Getting The Eagles Fan Experience
149
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Dan McQuade
December 11, 2023
Why Your Team Sucks
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Cleveland Browns
317
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Drew Magary
August 22, 2024
Soccer
Aitana Bonmatí Can’t Win
63
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Billy Haisley
August 16, 2023
NFL
Killin’ Dylan: The Fascinating Horrors Of Jim Irsay’s “Blowin’ In The Wind”
113
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Dave McKenna
November 9, 2022
Jamboroo
I Want To Focus On My Salad
560
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Drew Magary
February 6, 2025
Chess
Gukesh D Unleashed The Zugzwang To Become The Youngest World Chess Champion In History
59
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Ben Tippett
December 13, 2024
Funbag
We Must Address The Tom Brady Crisis (The Crisis Being That He Stinks)
718
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Drew Magary
September 24, 2024
Champions League
Real Sociedad Is Exactly What The Champions League Needs
7
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Billy Haisley
October 27, 2023
Soccer
Luis Rubiales Shows The Whole World Spain’s Entire Ass
237
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Albert Burneko
August 25, 2023
Arts And Culture
KiiiKiii And The Dawn Of K-Pop’s Process Era
26
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Kathryn Xu
March 23, 2025
Soccer
Everything You Need To Know About The Women’s Olympic Soccer Tournament, While It’s Still Worth Knowing About
43
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Billy Haisley
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Tom Ley
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Luis Paez-Pumar
July 25, 2024
NFL
Jim Brown’s Legacies
101
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Diana Moskovitz
June 2, 2023
Soccer
The Failure Of Paul Pogba
37
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Billy Haisley
March 3, 2024
Jamboroo
Pass The Salt
307
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Drew Magary
November 28, 2024
Politics
Is Ron DeSantis Wearing Hidden Platform Heels Inside His Stupid Ugly Boots? An Investigation
365
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Chris Thompson
October 6, 2023
NHL
A Pittsburgh Pilgrimage
149
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Lauren Theisen
February 25, 2025
Jamboroo
I Am The Passenger Now
401
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Drew Magary
November 21, 2024
Funbag
What’s The Worst Sport To Play With A Poopy Diaper?
744
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Drew Magary
November 12, 2024
Creaturefector
The “It Girl” Spiders That May Or May Not Be Taking Over The East Coast, At Some Point, Eventually
107
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Sabrina Imbler
June 24, 2024
![The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and wonderful spiral galaxies with ragged or disrupted spiral arms, grand-design spiral galaxies boast prominent, well-developed spiral arms like the ones showcased in this image. This galactic portrait was captured by Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). In this image the reprocessed stellar light by dust grains and molecules in the medium of the galaxy illuminate a dramatic filamentary medium. Empty cavities and bright filaments alternate and give the impression of ripples propagating from the spiral arms. The yellow compact regions indicate the newly formed star clusters in the galaxy. M51 — also known as NGC 5194 — lies about 27 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is trapped in a tumultuous relationship with its near neighbour, the dwarf galaxy NGC 5195. The interaction between these two galaxies has made these galactic neighbours one of the better-studied galaxy pairs in the night sky. The gravitational influence of M51’s smaller companion is thought to be partially responsible for the stately nature of the galaxy’s prominent and distinct spiral arms. If you would like to learn more about this squabbling pair of galactic neighbours, you can explore earlier observations of M51 by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope here. This Webb observation of M51 is one of a series of observations collectively titled Feedback in Emerging extrAgalactic Star clusTers, or FEAST. The FEAST observations were designed to shed light on the interplay between stellar feedback and star formation in environments outside of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. Stellar feedback is the term used to describe the outpouring of energy from stars into the environments which form them, and is a crucial process in determining the rates at which stars form. Understanding stellar feedback is vital to building accurate universal models of star formation. The aim of the FEAST observations is to discover and study stellar nurseries in galaxies beyond our own Milky Way. Before Webb became operative, other observatories such as the Atacama Large Millimetre Array in the Chilean desert and Hubble have given us a glimpse of star formation either at the onset (tracing the dense gas and dust clouds where stars will form) or after the stars have destroyed with their energy their natal gas and dust clouds. Webb is opening a new window into the early stages of star formation and stellar light, as well as the energy reprocessing of gas and dust. Scientists are seeing star clusters emerging from their natal cloud in galaxies beyond our local group for the first time. They will also be able to measure how long it takes for these stars to pollute with newly formed metals and to clean out the gas (these time scales are different from galaxy to galaxy). By studying these processes, we will better understand how the star formation cycle and metal enrichment are regulated within galaxies as well as what are the time scales for planets and brown dwarfs to form. Once dust and gas is removed from the newly formed stars, there is no material left to form planets. [Image Description: A large spiral galaxy takes up the entirety of the image. The core is mostly bright white, but there are also swirling, detailed structures that resemble water circling a drain. There is white and pale blue light that emanates from stars and dust at the core’s centre, but it is tightly limited to the core. The detailed rings feature bands of deep orange and cloudy grey, which are interspersed by darker empty regions throughout.]](https://lede-admin.defector.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2023/12/potm2308c.jpg?resize=2880%2C1920)
