New stunning photos captured by the Webb telescope showcase the ethereal radiance of recently formed stars.
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured two new images that reveal a bustling stellar nursery, teeming with hundreds of fiery and enormous young stars. These stunning images offer a detailed view of the exceptionally concentrated area in outer space.
NIRCam and MIRI, two instruments on the Webb telescope, captured pictures of a star-forming area in the Triangulum galaxy known as NGC 604. The images, which showcase complementary perspectives, were revealed by the NASA Webb Mission Team. The region, believed to be 3.5 million years old, contains over 200 hot and massive stars in their early developmental stages. The young stars captured in the images are classified as either B-type or O-type, indicating their physical characteristics. Some O-type stars are more than 100 times larger than the sun in our solar system.
The Webb Mission Team stated that it is uncommon to discover such a high number of these objects in the surrounding area of the universe. In comparison, there is no other region like this in our own Milky Way galaxy. The Triangulum galaxy, located 2.73 million light-years away from Earth, is categorized as nearby.
The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex has been the subject of an image released by so-and-so. The image depicts a stellar nursery and has been stated to be the nearest star-forming area to Earth. Approximately 50 fledgling stars were discovered in this region, all of which were either the same size or smaller than the sun in our solar system.
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