NASA marks Webb Space Telescope’s one year of discovery with close-up of 50 baby stars
The Associated Press. “I like to remind people that when this light left, it was roughly 1633.
... People were putting Galileo on trial for believing that the Earth goes around the sun, and here we are seeing separate suns and planets forming today," Smith said.
According to NASA, this cloud complex, known as Rho Ophiuchi, is the closest-star forming region to Earth and is found in the sky near the border of the constellations Ophiuchus and Scorpius, the serpent-bearer and scorpion. With no stars in the foreground of the photo, NASA noted, the details stand out all the more.
Some of the stars display shadows indicating possible planets in the making. Webb is considered as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, orbiting Earth for 33 years.
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