Kelly LepoNov 16, 2022

Babe, wake up, a new #JWST image just dropped.

Light from the protostar L1527 escapes above and below an edge-on protoplanetary disk (the dark line at the center of the image), creating an hourglass shape. This illuminates the cavities carved as ejected material from the star collides with the surrounding, dusty nebula.

Dust scatters shorter wavelengths of light, so blue areas are where the dust is thinner and orange areas are where the dust is more dense.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2022/news-2022-055

#astronomy

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Show threadDiego Ramírez
@kellylepo Thank you very much for the quite brilliant image description. All of us, screen reader users, appreciate it! 😁
Nov 17, 2022 at 12:00amWeb
Show threadKelly LepoNov 17, 2022

@BlindMoon38
Glad you are enjoying them! Feedback like this is why I've become so passionate about accessibility issues.

Most of the image descriptions that I use, including the one for this post, come from our brilliant science writers at the Space Telescope Science Institute.

I am one of many people on the team at STScI that worked to develop our in-house alt text style, and I review many of the official image descriptions for scientific accuracy.

Show threadDiego RamírezNov 17, 2022
@kellylepo They are quite good. I know that there are some ‘guidelines’ which recommen short, concise descriptions but, in my experience, the more details, the better. Verbosity makes me happy!