The complete 125MB image captures the light from thousands of stars inside the nebula.
The latest image from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured „thousands of never-before-seen stars“ in a prominent nebula, according to NASA.
The space agency today released a picture taken by the space telescope of the Tarantula Nebula, which resides about 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud satellite galaxy.
Over the decades, astronomers have snapped plenty of pictures of the Tarantula Nebula, which resembles a spider’s web. However, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope was able to capture a more detailed view of the cosmic sight.Close-up view of the stars in the center of the nebula taken with Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera.
The space telescope has been observing the cloud to help astronomers better understand early star formation that occurs in the Tarantula Nebula. The result is a mosaic image of the nebula that’s almost 125MB when downloaded at its original size.
