Washington: It’s been 1 year since the James Webb Telescope was sent into space and today is its first ‘anniversary’. To commemorate this, NASA has released a photo of the birth of a star in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.
According to US media, the star-forming region pictured is about 390 light-years away from Earth, making it the closest star-forming region to Earth.
NASA said at the time that the image shows a region of about 50 young stars, all of which are similar to or smaller than the Sun. The darkest regions of space are the densest, where thick dust clouds are still forming stars.
The image shows red patches of molecular hydrogen emerging from the gas cloud that forms when a new star is going through its birth stages.
Some of the stars in this dark region are surrounded by shadows, indicating that they have formed protoplanetary disks that formed when the planet was forming.
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