With just over 2-years of service under its belt, the James Webb Space Telescope continues to dazzle, and its latest image of NGC 604 is no exception. This star-forming region is located in the Triangulum galaxy (M33), roughly 2.73 million light-years away from Earth.
In these images, captured by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), we can observe the cavernous bubbles and stretched-out filaments of gas. Within these envelopes of gas are more than 200 of the hottest, most massive kinds of stars, all in the early stages of their formation. More specifically, B-types and O-types of stars, the latter of which can be more than 100 times the mass of our own Sun.
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Webb’s exquisite resolution also provides insights into features that previously appeared unrelated to the main cloud. For example, in Webb’s image, there are two bright, young stars carving out holes in dust above the central nebula, connected through diffuse red gas,” said the NASA Webb Mission Team.
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