A new ultra high resolution images from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed thousands of new stars in the famous Tarantula Nebula.
displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust. The most active region appears to sparkle with massive young stars, appearing pale blue. Scattered among them are still-embedded stars, appearing red, yet to emerge from the dusty cocoon of the nebula. NIRCam is able to detect these dust-enshrouded stars thanks to its unprecedented resolution at near-infrared wavelengths.
30 Doradus, also called the Tarantula Nebula, is one of the most frequently studied regions of the night sky. It’s about 161,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. The Tarantula Nebula’s fame comes from its status as the largest and brightest star-forming region known to astronomers in any of the galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. Over 800,000 stars and protostars are inside the nebula.
It gets its name from filaments that resembles a spiderweb. Webb’s new images reveal detailed structure and composition of its gas and dust. They also show distant background galaxies, as well as the hottest, most massive stars known.
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