Astronomers are getting unprecedented views of the Universe thanks to NASA's James Webb space telescope.
On Tuesday, the space agency released a mosaic image that shows a panorama of star formation. The main feature in this image is called 30 Doradus, but it has a different nickname, the Tarantula Nebula.
At a distance of 160,000 light years, this stellar nursery is one of the closest ones to our own. The biggest and brightest stellar nebula in the local neighborhood of galaxies is called the Tarantula Nebula.
The Hubble Telescope can see light in the visible portion of the spectrum, but it can't see light in the IR portion. Cosmic dust particles are more likely to interfere with light at a shorter wavelength if they block light from distant objects.
Tens of thousands of young stars were previously blocked by the dust in the Tarantula Nebula, and that is what is revealed by the images of it.
Astronomers are interested in better understanding the process by which stars are formed. New insight into this process will be provided by better images and data, which will show why there is a lot of different sized stars in our universe.
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