The James Webb Space Telescope has peeked deep into the heart of the Orion Nebula to reveal how massive stars affect the areas in which they were born. Image processed by thecolomb7710
led by Olivier Berné at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in France.
This programme is designed specifically to study how stars heat the gas and dust around them. The process occurs most intensely in areas called photodissociation regions, named for the process by which intense starlight breaks apart the molecules surrounding the stars.The picture above shows one such region, in which the bright stars at the bottom right have heated and dissociated, leaving the clouds at the upper left, which are just distant enough to escape the most powerful radiation.
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