The powerful James Webb Space Telescope is a mighty technological tool.
Astrophysicists first conceived it over 20 years ago, and after many twists and turns, it was launched on December 25, 2021. Now it's in a halo orbit at theIt's only been a few months since its first images were released, and it's already making progress in answering some of the Universe's most compelling questions.
We all marveled at that image back in July, but scientists have dug into it to learn more about the region and the star-forming activity happening there. Thepublished a paper presenting the results of their work.Deep diving off the 'Cosmic Cliffs': previously hidden outflows in NGC 3324 revealed by JWST.The researchers examined the Webb image more closely and found over two dozen outflows from hot young stars that weren't previously seen.
"It opens the door for what's going to be possible in terms of looking at these populations of newborn stars in fairly typical environments of the Universe that have been invisible up until the James Webb Space Telescope," added Reiter. Understanding how young stars form is one of the primary quests in astrophysics today. The collective light from the first stars helped drive the reionization of the early Universe. Before the, a dense fog of primordial gas obscured the Universe. During Reionization, light from young stars helped clear the haze from the Universe and allowed light to travel.
This isn't the first time astronomers have studied the young stars forming in this region. The Hubble looked at it 16 years ago. "Future observations will allow quantitative analysis of the excitation, mass-loss rates, and velocities of these new flows," the authors write.
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