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For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33).
Source and more➡️ https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/peering-into-the-tendrils-of-ngc-604-with-nasas-webb/
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST
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For those who missed it, this is the stunning image from Webb's NIRCam showing NGC 604, a star-forming region located around 2.73 Mly away in the Triangulum galaxy (M33).
Source and more➡️ https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/peering-into-the-tendrils-of-ngc-604-with-nasas-webb/
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
🔭 🧪 #extragalactic #NASAWebb #JWST
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NGC 604 is one of the largest H II regions in the Local Group: a huge "hatchery" where new stars form.
Inside there are about 200 hot and massive young stars ionizing the nebula's gas. These stars of spectral type O and WR can have more than 100 times the mass of the Sun.
Such a concentration of stars is unique within our galaxy.
This vast star-forming region is over 40 times larger than the visible part of the Orion Nebula, and it is also 6300 times brighter. If it were at the same distance as the Orion Nebula, it would be brighter than Venus.
Spectroscopic observations carried out by the Webb telescope have highlighted the presence of carbon-based molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), a crucial material in the interstellar medium and in the formation of stars and planets.
The NIRCam image shows how stellar
winds from the bright and hot stars, mentioned before, carve out cavities in surrounding gas and dust.
This is the MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) view of NGC 604. Here you can see how large clouds of cooler gas and dust glow in mid-infrared wavelengths.
➡️ https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/peering-into-the-tendrils-of-ngc-604-with-nasas-webb/