By- Srushti sharma
The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail,
Including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain.
The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
There’s never been any infrared data on this region with the level of resolution and sensitivity we get with Webb, so we are seeing lots of features here for the first time
Webb reveals an incredible amount of detail, allowing us to study star formation in this sort of environment in a way that wasn’t possible previously
The galactic center is the most extreme environment in our Milky Way galaxy, where current theories of star formation can be put to their most rigorous test
The image from Webb is stunning, and the science we will get from it is even better
Massive stars are factories that produce heavy elements in their nuclear cores,
The James Webb Space Telescope is the world’s premier space science observatory.
Webb is solving mysteries in our solar system, looking beyond to distant worlds around other stars, and probing the mysterious structures and origins of our universe and our place in it