Image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region

Caption

The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, contains intriguing needle-like structures that lack any uniform orientation.

 

Credit

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia).

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