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14 March 2024 08:01 a.m.
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Triangulum galaxy M33 is 2.73 million light years from Earth in the constellation Triangulum. It’s one of the places that astronomers are interested because the galaxy is home to a stellar source called NGC 604, which is about 3.5 million years old. It looks like a bubble in a cavity filled with tangled filaments of gas.
recently A team of astronomers from the European Space Agency has released two new images of NGC 604 obtained with an infrared camera. (Near-Infrared Camera-NIRCam) and a camera that detects mid-infrared radiation. (Mid-InfraRed Instrument-MIRI) on the James Webb Space Telescope, an instrument that is a collaboration of NASA, the United States, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency This led the team to identify more than 200 of the hottest and most massive stars, all in the early stages of life. Hidden in NGC 604’s cloud of gas and dust
These extremely hot stars belong to the B and O categories, which are more than 100 times more massive than our Sun. It is relatively rare to find such high densities in the vicinity of Earth. And the combination of these massive stars, combined with their relatively close proximity to Earth, makes NGC 604 a fascinating study of the early stages of the lives of these stars.
Credit : NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
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