The James Webb Space Telescope can see stars blazing as they heat the area around them and explode.

Space 12 September 2022

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An image of the Orion nebula taken by JWST

The space between the stars.

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The star at the center of the sword is not a star at all. It is the nearest massive star forming region. In order to understand how massive stars affect the areas in which they were born, theJWST has peeked into the heart of the nebula.

The visible extent of the nebula is 1/600th of the mass of the sun and contains hundreds of young, hot stars. As part of an observing programme, it was taken.

The programme is about studying how stars heat the gas and dust. Photodissociation regions are named for the process by which starlight breaks apart the molecule surrounding the stars.

It's important to understand the process in detail because it's the remnants and leaves of star-forming regions that make up our galaxy.

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