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In honor of its first year in space, James Webb has given us a glorious glimpse of the closest star-forming region to Earth, the Rho Ophiuchi.
"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," says NASA Admin Bill Nelson.
In the Rho region, there are about 50 young stars all with a mass similar to or smaller than our Sun. We see huge jets of molecular hydrogen (red) which occur when a star bursts through its natal envelope of dust, stretching itself into being.
Some stars show the shadow of a circumstellar disk, the makings of future planetary systems.
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