The James Webb Space Telescope instantly enchanted the world with The first pictures have been releasedon July 12, and since then the surprise has not stopped, as the childhood of a galaxy that was born 13.5 billion years ago or was first discovered, showed, Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside the solar system. Now, Webb has captured the “giant space tarantula,” a cosmic cocoon of thousands of never-before-seen young stars.
The Tarantula Nebula is located in 161 thousand light years In the Large Magellanic Cloud – a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way – it is a true cosmic motherhood, where Tens of thousands of new stars are bornAmid clouds of gas and dust.
This remarkable image, captured by NIRCam, which is designed for near-infrared observations, shows a region 340 light-years across. The The area shown in blue is the most active In the Tarantula Nebula, that is, where the process of star formation is most intense.
The Tarantula Nebula got its name thanks to filaments of dust and “It is the home of the most famous and hottest stars.”According to NASA.
Another image, taken by the MIRI camera, which operates in the far-infrared spectrum, smoothes out hotter stars and focuses on cooler structures of gas and dust. This is where protostars form and gain mass, as is the case with the blue dot seen in this image.
For astronomers, these images of the Tarantula Nebula are especially important for understanding what the universe looked like at a time known as the “cosmic noon,” when the process of star formation reached its climax.
- text: Expresso, the partner newspaper of Postal
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