NASA regularly shares amazing images of the universe and amazes space lovers. In a new post, the US space agency gave astronomers and space enthusiasts their first glimpse of gas jets leaving newborn stars and plunging into cosmic gas and dust at high speeds. The event was captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Sharing the image, NASA wrote that the object is part of the Serpentine Nebula, located 1,300 light years away.
“Astronomers have long assumed that stars tend to rotate in one direction when clouds break up to form stars. But this has never been seen before. This block, elongated structure is a historical record of how stars are born,” said Klaus Pontoppidan. principal investigator at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
“Previous objects were either invisible or invisible at optical wavelengths. Webb’s sensitive infrared vision was able to resolve stars and their streams and see through thick dust,” the space agency said.
“This region is part of the Serpentine Nebula. Located 1,300 light years from Earth, it is only 1-2 million years old – very young in cosmic terms! Here, dense clusters of newly formed stars (about 100,000 years old). seen in the center of the image ,” he said.
In the description of the photo, NASA said that the young star-forming region is filled with orange, red and blue layers and dust. The upper left corner of the picture is mostly filled with orange dust, and in that orange dust there are some small reddish gasses extending from the upper left to the lower right at the same angle. The center of the image is mostly filled with blue gas.
“In the middle there is a single bright star with an hourglass shadow above and below it. To the right is a vertical line shaped like an eye with a bright star in the middle. To the right, gas. The crater is dark orange, and small dots point the field, the brightest source in field, according to the space agency The Webb has octagonal diffraction gratings.
NASA shared the image a few days later. It has since garnered over 415,000 likes and several comments. One user commented: “I never thought the universe had real disco lights.”
“Whoever writes lately deserves to reach a level that is astronomically relevant and accessible to all of us. Thank you!” commented another. A third Instagram user said: “Very impressive.”
“Now, on all fours and knees, with a straight back and arched neck, looking up to the sky, he looks like someone # falling down. If heaven is not bad, hell if it is technically heaven,” he said.
