NASA's highly sensitive James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extremely detailed image of thousands of never-before-seen young stars in a region known as the Tarantula Nebula.
In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb's Near-Infrared Camera displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust. / Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
Studying the nebula also offers astronomers a unique insight into our universe's past and how stars formed in the deep cosmic past. Though close to us, the chemical make-up of the nebula is similar to the gigantic, star-forming regions from when the universe was only a few billion years old, and star formation was at its peak — a period known as"cosmic noon."
"Only the densest surrounding areas of the nebula resist erosion by these stars' powerful stellar winds, forming pillars that appear to point back toward the cluster," said NASA. These pillars contain young stars called"protostars," which form in cocoons of dust."Astronomers previously thought this star might be a bit older and already in the process of clearing out a bubble around itself," NASA said.
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