BREAKING One year after science operations began, NASA shares a mesmerizing image of the nearest Sun-like star-forming region, Rho Ophiuchi.
“To celebrate the completion of a successful first year, NASA has released Webb’s image of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex,” the space agency wrote in aRho Ophiuchi, the nearest Sun-like star-forming region to Earth, is located 390 light-years away, meaning Webb was able to capture a highly detailed close-up. NASA pointed out that the proximity, as well as the fact there are no stars between Rho Ophiuchi and Webb, allowed for such a detailed observation.
"Webb's image of Rho Ophiuchi allows us to witness a very brief period in the stellar lifecycle with new clarity," said Klaus Pontoppidan, a Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. "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.
Since then, Webb has collected a wealth of highly-valuable scientific data that has helped to alter our understanding of the cosmos. Notably, it has led to the discovery of
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