'In just one year, the James Webb Space Telescope has transformed humanity's view of the cosmos, peering into dust clouds and seeing light from faraway corners of the universe for the very first time,' said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
The picture is of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the nearest stellar nursery to Earth, whose proximity at 390 light-years allows for a crisp close-up by the most powerful orbital observatory ever built.
Huge jets of hydrogen appear horizontally in the upper third of the image, and vertically on the right. "Webb's image of Rho Ophiuchi allows us to witness a very brief period in the stellar life cycle with new clarity. Our own Sun experienced a phase like this, long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another star's story," said Webb project scientist Klaus Pontoppidan.Webb was launched in December 2021 from French Guiana, on a 1.5 million kilometer voyage to a region called the second Lagrange point.
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