NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured an amazing photo of the star-forming region NGC 346, part of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
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The image was taken in infrared light and in it the outline of NGC 346 becomes similar to a “raven”. A response photo today, October 10, was published on NASA’s Instagram page.
The eerie blue tendrils that make up this “raven” are dust silicates and soot from chemical molecules, while the red glow is warm dust heated by the brightest and most massive stars in the center of the region. There are also many child stars in this area, still living in their dust cocoons, as indicated in the photo description.
NASA notes that the Small Magellanic Cloud has a composition much closer to that of galaxies in the early Universe and contains fewer heavy elements. Accordingly, scientists did not expect to find large amounts of cosmic dust formed from heavy elements. However, the images taken by Webb show that there is a lot of dust in this region of space.
Amazing photo of a distant galaxy published by NASA
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