In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust.

In this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across, Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) displays the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in a new light, including tens of thousands of never-before-seen young stars that were previously shrouded in cosmic dust. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team)

A spectacular and unprecedented view of a star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula has been delivered by the james wbb space telescope

The stellar nursery, formally named 30 Doradus, contains thousands of never-before-seen young stars.

The new detail picked up by the $10 billion space telescope shows gas and dust in the nebula and distant galaxies.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is live.

Doradus 30 can now be seen to look like a burrowing tarantula's hide, thanks to the new detail in the image.

The photo is the latest in a series of stunning images released from JWST, which launched on Christmas Day 2021. The Einstein ring is included in recent images.

The Local Group of stars is located in the Tarantula Nebula, which is 161,000 light-years away from us.

A side-by-side display of the same region of the Tarantula Nebula brings out the distinctions between Webb’s near-infrared (closer to visible red, left) and mid-infrared (further from visible red, right) images.

A side-by-side display of the same region of the Tarantula Nebula brings out the distinctions between Webb's near-infrared (closer to visible red, left) and mid-infrared (further from visible red, right) images. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team)
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Astronomers want to know how stars form. A unique insight into how stars formed in the deep Cosmic past can be found in the chemical composition of the nebula.

The European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency contributed to the project.

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