"James Webb" showed the birth of new stars in the photo
Miscellaneous / / July 12, 2023
"James Webb" did a snapshot of a small area of star formation Rho Ophiuchus closest to Earth, capturing the moment of new star birth. NASA has published a photo in honor of the anniversary of the work of the space telescope.
The imprinted space is 390 light years from us. On the frame you can see about 50 young stars, the mass of which is approximately equal to the Sun or slightly less.
The darkest areas in the photo are dense areas where thick dust cocoons still surround forming protostars. The red color can be used to identify the bipolar jets of molecular hydrogen, with the help of which the formed stars break through their native shell. Our Sun once also went through a similar phase.
At the bottom of the image is a "glowing cave" formed by the star S1 at its center. It is larger than the Sun in mass.
James Webb Space Telescope began work on July 12, 2022. Since then, he has changed humanity's understanding of the cosmos, peering into dust clouds for the first time and seeing light from the far reaches of the universe.
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