“Breathtaking” images of the Orion Nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), have revealed intricate details about how stars and planetary systems formed.
According to the news reported by CNN International, the images shared on Monday revealed an image similar to the environment in which the solar system formed more than 4.5 billion years ago.
Western University astrophysicist Els Peeters told the Orion Nebula that observing it will help space scientists better understand what happened during the first million years of the Milky Way’s planetary evolution.
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“WE ARE BEHIND”
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“We were blown away by the breathtaking images of the Orion Nebula. We started this project in 2017, so we waited more than five years to get this data. These new observations better understand how massive stars transform the gas and dust cloud from which they were born, “Peeters said. He makes us understand. he said.
The brightest scattered nebula in the sky and 1,600 light-years away, the Orion Nebula is obscured by huge amounts of stardust; this makes it impossible to study what’s going on inside with tools like the James Webb Space Telescope.
But James Webb detected infrared light from the cosmos, allowing observers to see these layers of dust, revealing the action taking place deep inside the Orion Nebula.
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“IT WAS AMAZING”
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Olivier Berné, researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS),
“The Orion Nebula was difficult to observe because it was too bright for Webb’s unprecedented tools. But Webb was amazing, Webb can observe distant and fainter galaxies, as well as Jupiter and Orion, some of the brightest sources in the infrared sky. “. he said.
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