Astronomers pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at a distant region called the outermost galaxy and zoomed in on dense cosmic clouds containing clusters of stars. They saw vibrant star formation and powerful jets of material ejected from these hot objects.

“What's amazing and surprising to me about the Webb data is that there are so many jets shooting out in all different directions from this star cluster,” NASA scientist Mike Ressler, who led the observations, said in a statement. a permit“It's kind of like fireworks, where you see things shooting one way and the other way.”

Web unveils dazzling stars

• Below, this activity can be seen in the Digel 2S Cloud region;
• In the middle of this cluster of young stars, there are jets emerging from the cluster;
• Young stars emit these jets of gas and dust from their poles, which travel out into space;
• “It's kind of like fireworks, where you see things going off this way and that,” Ressler explained.

In addition to these dynamic stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way, you can see several other distant galaxies, shown in red and green colors. Many of these are spiral galaxies, like our own.

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The outer galaxy is located more than 58,000 light-years from the center of our galaxy. Earth is about 26,000 light-years from its center.

The research involving Web was published in Astronomical Journal It has been peer-reviewed. It brings new observations to scientists' quest to understand how stars form in different environments.