Feast your eyes on the latest picture from the James Webb Space Telescope, which is celebrating its first year of science operations. This is the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, Earth's closest star-forming region.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan , the JWST team has released a glittering scene of Earth’s closest star-forming region. This dazzling shot depicts the chaotic action from the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, which sits around 400 light years away from us.
The region, which has been captured by JWST’s infrared camera NIRCam, comprises around 50 young stars, all of which have a mass similar to or smaller than that of the sun. The darkest sections of the image represent dense clouds of dust enveloping budding protostars, while the striking splashes of scarlet that criss-cross the scene are protostellar outflows – powerful twin jets of material that shoot out during the early stages of a star’s birth – colliding with interstellar gas.A glowing cavity of dust dominates the lower half of the image, which has been carved out by the hefty star that sits in its centre, as seen by its slightly purple hue.
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