take the telescope James Webb Astronomers have released new images containing intricate details of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula, revealing how stars and planetary systems are formed.
The images shed light on an environment similar to our solar system when it formed more than 4.5 billion years ago. Observing the Orion Nebula will help astronomers better understand what happened during the Milky Way’s first million years of planetary evolution, a Western Else University astrophysicist Peters said in a press release.
“We were amazed by the new images of the Orion Nebula. We started this project in 2017, so we waited more than five years for this data. These new observations allow us to better understand how massive stars transform gas and dust cloud. in which they were born “.
Stellar nurseries, such as the Orion Nebula, are obscured by large amounts of stardust, making it impossible to study what’s going on inside with tools like the Hubble Space Telescope, which relies primarily on visible light.
However, Webb detects infrared light from the universe, which allows observers to see these layers of dust and detect motion that occurs deep within the Orion Nebula, making these the most detailed and clearest images ever taken of the nebula, which it is located in the constellation Orion 1,350 years away. Photovoltaic from the ground.
“Observing the Orion Nebula was a challenge because it is too bright for Webb’s unprecedented devices,” said researcher Olivier Bernay of the French National Center for Scientific Research at CNRS.
New images reveal many structures within the nebula, including Proplyds, a central protostar surrounded by a disk of dust and gas in which planets form.
“We have never been able to see the intricate details of how interstellar matter forms in these environments and how planetary systems might form in the presence of this strong radiation,” said Emily Fabart, associate professor at the Space Astronomical Institute. Interstellar medium in planetary systems.
At the heart of the Orion Nebula, a trapezoidal group of young and massive stars is also visible that make up the cloud of dust and gas with their intense ultraviolet radiation, according to the press release.
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