NEW NASA IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHS THE HEART OF THE MILKY WAY.

-RIYA GAUTAM

A New NASA image may change the understanding of the Milky Way. James Web space telescope is the world's premier space science observatory which is helping solve the mystery of our solar system, looking to distant worlds around the stars and probing mysterious structures of our universe and our place in it. Webb is in an international program led by NASA with its partners ESA(European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency).

This new image unveiled new features and mysteries that could help astronomers unravel more details about the early universe. This new image shows a portion of the dense center of a galaxy in unprecedented detail, revealing never-before-seen features that astronomers are yet to understand and explain, including the star-forming region named Sagittarius C which is about 300 light years from the Milky Way Central submassive black hole, Sagittarius A. There has never been any infrared data in the form of images with the level of revolution and sensitivity that NASA has got from its James Webb Telescope, which showed an incredible amount of detail, allowing astronomers to study various star formations in an environment-friendly way that was not possible earlier.

Webb's NIRCam (near-infrared camera) instrument also captured large-scale emissions from ionized hydrogen surrounding the lower side of the dark cloud, showing a cyan color in the image. Typically, this is a result of energetic photons being a matter by young massive stars, but the last extent of the region shown by the telescope is something of astonishment that shall be investigated in the future. Another feature of this region is its needle-like structures in the ionized hydrogen which appear oriented chaotically in many directions.

Crowe said, "The image from Webb is stunning, and the science we will get from it is even better."