The silky swirls are home to a bright and large star-forming region.
, which can detect longer infrared wavelengths and see through the stellar dust in a nebula. MIRI peered into a previously unseen cosmic environment, where that the hotter stars fade, the cooler gases and dust glow, and the points of light within the nebula’s clouds indicate embedded protostars that are still gaining mass.
At the longer wavelengths of light JWST focuses on the area surrounding the central star cluster and unveils a very different view of the Tarantula Nebula. CREDITS: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team The Tarantula Nebula has been a favorite of astronomers studying star formation since it has has a similar chemical makeup to that of the gigantic star-forming regions at the universe’s
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