Webb’s vibrant one-year anniversary image shows about 50 stars in various stages of formation about 390 light-years away from Earth, NASA said.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a dreamy image depicting the birth of 50 sun-like stars.
The space observatory has been casting its powerful infrared vision across the universe for a year now. From its vantage point one million miles from Earth — and with 100 times the power of its predecessor, Hubble — Webb has discovered the earliest galaxies and supermassive black holes known to science, spotted sand storms on a distant planet, and detected a molecular building block of life beyond our solar system for the first time.
NASA celebrated Webb’s historic year by releasing the new stunning picture, above, on Wednesday.
NASA’s administrator, Bill Nelson, dubbed the image „an impressionistic masterpiece.
