{"id":181276,"date":"2024-01-24T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/webb-telescope-captures-massive-star-forming-complex"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:24:31","slug":"webb-telescope-captures-massive-star-forming-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/webb-telescope-captures-massive-star-forming-complex","title":{"rendered":"Webb Telescope captures massive star-forming complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/webb-telescope-captures-massive-star-forming-complex.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This image from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized, captured here by Webb\u2019s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI).<\/p>\n<p>N79 is a massive star-forming complex spanning roughly 1,630 light-years in the generally unexplored southwest region of the LMC. N79 is typically regarded as a younger version of 30 Doradus (also known as the Tarantula Nebula), another of Webb\u2019s recent targets. Research suggests that N79 has a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/star+formation\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">star formation<\/a> efficiency exceeding that of 30 Doradus by a factor of two over the past 500,000 years.<\/p>\n<p>This particular image centers on one of the three giant molecular cloud complexes, dubbed N79 South (S1 for short). The distinct \u201cstarburst\u201d pattern surrounding this bright object is a series of diffraction spikes. All telescopes that use a mirror to collect light, as Webb does, have this form of artifact that arises from the design of the telescope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image from the NASA\/ESA\/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized, captured here by Webb\u2019s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI). N79 is a massive star-forming complex [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}