James Webb Captures 150-Light-Year Orion Star-Formation Panorama
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Updated · NASA · Jun 18
James Webb Captures 150-Light-Year Orion Star-Formation Panorama
3 articles · Updated · NASA · Jun 18
Summary
A June 5 image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a small section of the Orion Molecular Clouds containing every major stage of star formation.
The 150-light-year scene spans cold gas and dust beyond the Orion Nebula, tracing objects from stellar embryos to protoplanetary discs to newly formed pre-main-sequence stars.
NASA said the image highlights Orion as a dense stellar nursery where multiple phases of star birth can be observed within a single region.