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It looks like someone painted the sky with a mix of chaos & beauty in this breathtaking image released 12 July 2023 on Webb's first anniversary of the first images revealed.
Source➡️ https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-celebrates-first-year-of-science-with-close-up-on-birth-of-sun-like-stars/
The image displays only a tiny region of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex,
It looks like someone painted the sky with a mix of chaos & beauty in this breathtaking image released 12 July 2023 on Webb's first anniversary of the first images revealed.
Source➡️ https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-celebrates-first-year-of-science-with-close-up-on-birth-of-sun-like-stars/
The image displays only a tiny region of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex,
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which, located roughly 400 light-years away bordering the constellations Ophiuchus and Scorpius, is the nearest star-forming region to Earth.
Webb’s image shows approximately 50 young stars, roughly the size of the Sun, at the center of circumstellar disks. These represent
planetary systems of the future being formed in a "stellar nursery".
Notable, in the lower half of the image, is the star S1, which appears surrounded by the lighter-coloured gas amid a glowing cave it is carving out with its stellar winds. It is the only star in the image that is
significantly more massive than the Sun.
The dark areas are dark nebulae composed of dense gas blocking out the background light.
Spectacular appear the bipolar jets of molecular hydrogen, here featured in red,
occurring when a star first bursts through its native cocoon of cosmic dust.
Image Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, K. Pontoppidan (STScI)
Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)