Stunning new images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope show the Orion Nebula, a mass of gas and stellar dust that resembles a huge winged object with a bright star in the center.
According to “French”, it appears that this nebula, which is 1350 light years from Earth, is in an environment similar to that in which our solar system was born 4.5 billion years ago.
So the international researchers who released the groundbreaking images intend to study this data to better understand the conditions that prevailed when our system was born.
The acquisition of these images is part of one of James Webb’s leading monitoring programs, involving more than 100 scientists from 18 countries, as well as the French National Center for Scientific Research, Western University in Canada and the University of Canada. Michigan.
“We were amazed by the wonderful images of the Orion Nebula,” an astrophysicist from Western Else Peters University said in a statement. “The new images allow us to better understand how massive stars transform their clouds of gas and dust.”
Large amounts of dust obscure the nebulae, making it impossible for visible-light telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope to see what’s inside.
James Webb has instruments that capture infrared light and allow him to monitor through these layers of dust, making it possible to detect huge space structures with a size of about 40 astronomical units. The astronomical unit is roughly equivalent to the distance that separates the Earth from the Sun.
Among these structures are a series of dense galactic filaments that promote the birth of a new generation of stars as well as star systems in the process of formation consisting of a central star surrounded by a circle of dust and gas within which planets form. .
“Hopefully it will come to an understanding of the entire cycle of star birth,” said University of Michigan astrophysicist Edwin Bergen.
James Webb, with a cost of ten billion dollars, is currently located about 1.5 million kilometers from the planet.
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