The James Webb Space Telescope has probed into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, revealing new features and mysteries within the chaotic region that could help astronomers uncover more details about the early universe.
The space observatory's ability to see the universe in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, captured unprecedented detail in the image, which was released by NASA on Monday.
Astronomers used the Webb telescope to spot Sagittarius C, or Sgr C, an active star-forming region located about 300 light-years from the central supermassive black hole of the galaxy Sagittarius A*.
A light year, equal to 9.46 trillion kilometers is how far a ray of light travels in one year.
"The imagery from Webb is stunning, and the science we will get from it is even better," Samuel Crowe, the principal investigator of the observations and an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia, said in a statement.
"Massive stars are factories that produce heavy elements in their nuclear cores, so understanding them better is like learning the origin story of most of the universe." /Telegraph/
