James Webb Space Telescope captures Orion Nebula with 'breathtaking' details

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Hubble walked so that JWST could run.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured the most detailed and painstakingly sharp images ever taken of the inner region of the Orion Nebula, known as the "picture book of star formation." The stellar nursery is situated in the constellation Orion, 1,350 light-years away from Earth.

. The team, which comprised institutions including the French National Center for Scientific Research , Western University in Canada, and the University of Michigan, started the project in 2017 and waited for five long years to get the data.A template image of the cosmic formation's center that is leaving astronomers "blown away."

"These new observations allow us to better understand how massive stars transform the gas and dust cloud in which they are born," Peeters said in aNASA had previously described the landscape of the dust and gas nebula as plateaus, mountains, and valleysScientists are interested in observing the Orion Nebula to better understand what happened during the first million years of our planetary evolution.

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