latest James Web Space Telescope (JWST) Image European Space Agency, “Great Glimpses of Starbirth” offers Tell me,
The stunning new shot is Pismis 24, a young star cluster located about 5,500 light-year from Earth. This important star is one of the closest areas of birth, allowing scientists to get a rare and special opportunity to get a sharp view in the form of large, large -scale stars. This area, beyond being fantastic to see, is a great place to find out how hot young stars develop.
The centers of the new image have Pismis 24–1. It was once considered one of the largest known stars, although it is actually a group of at least two stars, even though they are not visible separately in this image. The two known stars are still the largest and bright so far, however, with 74 and 66 solar masses respectively.
The web captured this incredible view using its near-nircam, which enabled it to the colleague through cosmic dust and gas, so that thousands of “stars of different shapes and colors such as jewelry could be solved.” The web’s trademark with six-point diffraction spikes is the objects seen here each. The stars appear red, yellow and white, which depends on the amount of dust that surrounds them and their stellar type.
Beyond thousands of stars, which are part of a nearby cluster, tens of thousand stars appear in the background, which are part of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The rough shape of gas and dust is due to excessive heat emitted by baby stars in Pismis 24, which is at the core of the lobster nebula. These baby stars are super-hot, which is about eight times warm compared to the sun. While sculpting a cavity in Nebula, immense amounts of energy are being thrown out in space.
There are long spires of gas who have opposed “tireless radiation and windows”, and ESA described them that “fingers pointing to warm, young stars like fingers that have given them idols.” The longest of these spires that appears in the image extends to about 5.4 light-year up to the bottom of the frame.
Says ESA, “More than 200 of our solar systems in Neptune orbit can be fitted in width, which is 0.14 light-year.”
The color in the image, which correspond to the specific wavelengths of light captured by monochromatic cameras of the web, help the audience differentiate between different objects in the picture. The cyan region shows warm, ionized gas that is being heated by young stars. Orange areas are dust molecules, which are similar to smoke on earth. The red dense molecular hydrogen, which is relatively quiet. Black areas represent dense gas, which is not detecting any light. Finally, the intelligent white area, which looks like a cloud, is dust and gas that scattering the starlight.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STSCI. Image processing by Elisa Pagan.
