James Webb Space Telescope reveals look at captivating ‘cosmic cliffs’
It features part of the Carina Nebula Complex, which is about 50 quadrillion miles from Earth.
By Dean Murray
A jaw-dropping new visualization shows dramatic 'cosmic cliffs' in space.
Space scientists have released an exploration of a star-forming region captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
It features part of the Carina Nebula Complex, which is located about 8,500 light-years - or 50 quadrillion miles - from Earth.
NASA Webb Mission Team said: "The landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” known as the Cosmic Cliffs is actually a portion of the nebula Gum 31, which contains a young star cluster called NGC 3324."
They add: "The Cliffs display a misty appearance, with “steam” that seems to rise from the celestial mountains. In actuality, the wisps are hot, ionised gas and dust streaming away from the nebula under an onslaught of relentless ultraviolet radiation."
The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful space telescope ever launched, designed to observe the universe in infrared light.
It orbits the Sun about 1.5 million kilometres from Earth and can look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous telescope, revealing the formation of the first galaxies, stars, and planetary systems.
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