This Webb image shows NGC 604 with more than 200 new stars, some of which could be more than 100 times the mass of our own Sun.
This star-forming region in the Triangulum galaxy contains the hottest and most massive stars we know of, totally unfamiliar to our Milky Way galaxy.
At the center of the image is a nebula on the black background of space. The nebula comprises clumpy, red, filamentary clouds. At the center-right of the red clouds is a large cavernous bubble, and at the center of the bubble there is an opaque blueish glow with speckles of stars. At the edges of the bubble, the dust is white. There are several other smaller cavernous bubbles at the top of the nebula. There are thousands of stars that fill the surrounding area outside of the nebula, most of them are yellow or white – at 11 o’clock and 6 o’clock there are extremely bright stars with 8 diffraction spikes. There are also some smaller, red stars and a few disc-shaped galaxies scattered about the image.
Image Credit: NASA/ESA Webb
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