A latest image from the James Webb Space Telescope showed a part of the center of our galaxy in stunning detail, including never-before-seen features that astronomers have yet to explain. In the image above, we come across approximately 500 thousand stars, located in the star formation region known as Sagittarius C (Sgr C). This place is about 300 light-years from the central hole of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A.
In addition to this large number of stars, we also have celestial bodies that will become stars in the future — the protostars. They, in turn, emerge from a very dense cloud, which prevents the light from the stars behind them from reaching the telescope’s detector. That way, it appears that the region is less populated with stars than it actually is, which increases the complexity of the record.
In the middle of this cluster, we still see a massive protostar, previously known, with more than 30 times the mass of our Sun.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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