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Three images of regions of the Orion Nebula captured by the JWST showing the familar star forming region in a vibrant new lightThe Orion Nebula may be a familiar and well-studied celestial object, but new images from the James Webb Space Telescope show this star-forming cloud of gas and dust in an incredibly new and vibrant light.Visible to the naked eye under dark skies, the Orion Nebula has been studied throughout human history, but the JWST images show it in unprecedented detail.
In the Orion Nebula, this bombardment of radiation is creating structures like the Orion Bar, which is essentially the edge of a large bubble carved out by some of the This helped to reveal the widescale chemical makeup of M42, allowing the PDRs4All team to see how temperature, density, and radiation field strength change through the Orion Nebula.
"The sharp hyperspectral JWST data contains so much more information than previous observations that it clearly pointed to the attenuation of radiation by dust and the efficient destruction of the smallest dust particles as the underlying cause for these variations," team member and Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale postdoctoral researcher Meriem El Yajouri said.
"We are studying what happens to carbonaceous molecules long before the carbon makes its way into our bodies," Cami added.
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