File:Sagittarius C (NIRCam Image) (weic2328a).jpg
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English: The full view of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s dense centre. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A vast region of ionised hydrogen, shown in cyan, wraps around an infrared-dark cloud, which is so dense that it blocks the light from distant stars behind it. Intriguing needle-like structures in the ionised hydrogen emission lack any uniform orientation. Researchers note the surprising extent of the ionised region, covering about 25 light-years. A cluster of protostars – stars that are still forming and gaining mass – are producing outflows that glow like a bonfire at the base of the large infrared-dark cloud, indicating that they are emerging from the cloud’s protective cocoon and will soon join the ranks of the more mature stars around them. Smaller infrared-dark clouds dot the scene, appearing like holes in the starfield. Researchers say they have only begun to dig into the wealth of unprecedented high-resolution data that Webb has provided on this region, and many features bear detailed study. This includes the rose-coloured clouds on the right side of the image, which have never been seen in such detail.[Image description: In a field crowded with stars, a funnel-shaped region of space appears darker than its surroundings with fewer stars. It is wider at the top edge of the image, narrowing towards the bottom. Toward the narrow end of this dark region a small clump of red and white appears to shoot out streamers upward and left. A large, bright cyan-colored area surrounds the lower portion of the funnel-shaped dark area, forming a rough U shape. The cyan-coloured area has needle-like, linear structures and becomes more diffuse in the center of the image. The right side of the image is dominated by clouds of orange and red, with a purple haze.] |
Date | 20 November 2023 (upload date) |
Source | Sagittarius C (NIRCam Image) |
Author | NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, S. Crowe (UVA) |
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The full view of the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument reveals a 50 light-years-wide portion of the Milky Way’s dense centre.
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Author | Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach |
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Credit/Provider | NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, S. Crowe (UVA) |
Source | ESA/Webb |
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Date and time of data generation | 16:00, 20 November 2023 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 25.1 (Macintosh) |
File change date and time | 16:33, 13 November 2023 |
Date and time of digitizing | 06:46, 12 January 2023 |
Date metadata was last modified | 04:12, 16 November 2023 |
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Keywords | Sagittarius C |
Contact information | [email protected]
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