New images from the Webb Telescope show astounding images of the Orion Nebula and give a rare look into the way stars and planets are born.
show astounding images of the Orion Nebula and give a rare look into the way stars and planets are born.by an international consortium of scientists working with the telescope.
The nebula, over 1,300 light years away, is intensely studied for its role in the creation of stars from collapsing clouds of gas and dust. It is the closest such star nursery to Earth.NASA/ESA/CSA/AFP via Getty Image Elsewhere in that image, scientists identified a newborn star in its “natal cloud,” the remnants of the gravitationally unstable gaseous formations that collapsed to form the star.
“Massive young stars emit large quantities of ultraviolet radiation directly into the native cloud that still surrounds them, and this changes the physical shape of the cloud as well as its chemical makeup,” she continued. “How precisely this works, and how it affects further star and planet formation is not yet well known.”2 Orionis A, the brightest star in the image, is just barely visible with the naked eye from Earth.