James Webb telescope explores giant stellar nursery

The James Webb Telescope has captured two clear images for the first time of a giant stellar nursery called NGC 604 (pictured) about 1,300 light years from Earth, revealing many surprising details.

NGC 604 has 200 stars and is located in Messier 33 (M33), a galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. This image from James Webb shows NGC's stars appearing blue in a brightly glowing gas cloud surrounded by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

PAHs are an important cosmic component because they play a key role in the development of planets and stars. Using an infrared camera that operates at a wavelength too short to be seen with the naked eye, the James Webb Space Telescope has penetrated the hazy layers of gas and dust and entered the pillars, a giant structure of gas and dust with countless stars in formation.

According to space researchers, the formation regions of NGC 604 could reveal information not only about the evolution of planets but also about the origin of life, helping to determine a more accurate number of newly forming stars and solve some of the other mysteries associated with this stellar nursery.

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Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/kinh-james-webb-kham-pha-vuon-uom-sao-khong-lo-post730317.html