NASA finally captured the never seen side of the Milky way galaxy to share among the space enthusiasts on Instagram. The high-end picture was captured by the James Webb Space Telescope that has the capability of restoring farfetch light sources easily. The star-forming view is yet to be explained by experts but it is winning hearts on Instagram.
In the caption of the astonishing image, NASA wrote, “Wish upon 500,000 stars. Take in this magical view of the heart of our home galaxy. Seen by the @NASAWebb telescope in unprecedented detail, Sagittarius C is a star-forming region about 300 light-years away from the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center.”
Imagine a view of lakhs of stars ahead of your head! According to NASA there must be around 500,000 stars in Sagittarius C, “Amid the estimated 500,000 stars in the image is a cluster of protostars – stars that are still forming and gaining mass – producing outflows that glow like a bonfire in the midst of an infrared-dark cloud. At the heart of this young cluster is a previously known, massive protostar over 30 times the mass of our Sun.”
NASA’s James Webb discovered ionized hydrogen emissions around the star region’s lower edge, which is portrayed in the image in cyan. Astronomers are still attempting to figure out what caused the large amount of charged gas, which exceeds what would ordinarily be expelled by young big stars. The observing team is especially interested in formations that resemble needles within the ionized hydrogen and are arranged randomly.
Samuel Crowe, principal investigator of the Observation team, also an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville shared his views on NASA’s telescope, “Webb reveals an incredible amount of detail, allowing us to study star formation in this sort of environment in a way that wasn’t possible previously.”