Check Out The Mysteries of the Milky Way With the Help of James Webb

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The center of our galaxy has long been a mystery, specifically because there is a massive cloud of dust and gas at the center. But it just so happens that the James Webb Space telescopes’s infrared camera can look straight through a lot of that and these images were recently captured by NASA’s device.

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00:00the center of our galaxy has long been a mystery specifically because there's a massive cloud of

00:08dusting gas at its center but it just so happens that the james webb space telescope's infrared

00:13camera can look straight through a lot of that and these images were recently captured by nasa's

00:17device and aside from being a view of an area quite inside our galaxy they say this image alone

00:22contains some 500 000 stars one of those stars in a region called sagittarius c is only around 300

00:29light years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way there's just one thing

00:33astronomers don't really know how so many stars can form in such a dense and irradiated region with

00:38the study lead saying about it there's never been any infrared data on this region with the level of

00:43resolution and sensitivity we get with web so we are seeing lots of features here for the first time

00:48the area is around 25 000 light years away from our own planet and while there are many stars within

00:53this photo experts say the james webb telescope is powerful enough to study them individually

00:58and they'll likely want to as this area is pumping out some weird stars including a fledgling one

01:03that is more than 30 times the mass of our sun what's more there are even more stars in this area

01:07than we can even see but the cloud these stars are coming out of is so dense we can't see the light

01:12from the others

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