STAR FORMATION! Webb reveals a turbulent stellar nursery 161,000 light-years away

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured N159, a massive star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 161,000 light-years from Earth. Webb’s observations reveal dense clouds of gas and dust, ionised hydrogen and intricate structures within this turbulent stellar nursery. The region spans approximately 230 light-years and contains thousands of stars in their earliest stages of formation. Less than three million years old, N159 offers astronomers an opportunity to study how stars form in an environment with fewer elements heavier than hydrogen and helium than the Milky Way. Video Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, E. Sabbi, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç