NASA marks Webb's first year with close-up of stellar birth

By Agence France-Presse

Jul 12, 2023 7:35 pm

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unveiled on Wednesday a spectacular new image depicting the birth of stars to celebrate the first anniversary of the James Webb Space Telescope's science operations.

The picture — which shows jets of red gas bursting into the cosmos, and a glowing cave of dust — is of the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the nearest star-forming region to Earth, whose proximity at 390 light years allows for a crisp close-up uncluttered by foreground stars.

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