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NASA releases new image to celebrate Webb space telescope’s first year of science

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Los Angeles: NASA released a new image of a small star-forming region captured by James Webb Space Telescope on Wednesday to celebrate the completion of the telescope’s first year of science.

The new image features the nearest star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. Its proximity at 390 light-years allows for a highly detailed close-up, with no foreground stars in the intervening space.

The region contains approximately 50 young stars, all of them similar in mass to the Sun, or smaller, according to NASA.

“Webb’s image of Rho Ophiuchi allows us to witness a very brief period in the stellar lifecycle with new clarity. Our own Sun experienced a phase like this, long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another’s star’s story,” said Klaus Pontoppidan, Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland.

“In just one year, the James Webb Space Telescope has transformed humanity’s view of the cosmos, peering into dust clouds and seeing light from faraway corners of the universe for the very first time. Every new image is a new discovery, empowering scientists around the globe to ask and answer questions they once could never dream of,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

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