The James Webb Telescope records new stars from the Tarantula Nebula

a space telescope James Webb Recorded photos of Tarantula Nebulawith fine detail that appears Young stars have never seen it. In a post on social networks, on Tuesday (6), NASA called on Internet users to reserve a “moment to observe” the capture process.

telescope “reveals Chassis details and the composition of the nebula, as well as the background galaxies,” he wrote. This region of space is known as 30 Dorados and is characterized by filaments of dust Which resemble the legs of a hairy spider.

Due to the high resolution of Webb infrared devices, Thousands of young starsdistant background galaxies and the detailed structure of gases and dust nebulae are visible for the first time.

astrological interest in Tarantula Nebula This is due to its chemical composition, which is similar to the regions of large star formation observed a few billion years after the Big Bang, a period called the “cosmic noon” when star formation reached its peak.

161,000 light-years away, a tarantula is a prime example of this The cosmic boom period.

See how the Webb Telescope works

Webb Image Size Approx. grain of sand At arm’s length, a tiny little piece of the vast universe.

The combined mass of this galaxy cluster acts as a gravity lenszoom in on distant galaxies, including some seen when the universe was less than a billion years old.

Due to the succession of the historic and revolutionary Hubble Telescope, NASA launched the Webb Space Telescope in December 2021, leaving French Guiana – a country bordering Brazil. The observatory was designed in the 1990s and is expected to be launched for the first time in 2007.

This deep field, captured by a near-infrared webcam (NIRCam), is a composite of images of different wavelengths totaling 12.5 hours – reaching depths in infrared wavelengths outside the deepest fields. Hubble Space Telescopewhich took weeks.