A mere 390 light-years away, Sun-like stars and future planetary systems are forming in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to our fair planet. The James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam peered into the nearby natal chaos to capture this infrared image at an inspiring scale.

  • Venutian Spring@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPMEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure about these infrared images, but if you’re interested, you can actually download the raw data from Webb and use it to practice postprocessing. There’s probably writeups on the process online somewhere though, if you’re interested