New pictures taken by the space telescope are impressive James Webb from his nebula Orionwhich lies 1,350 light-years from Earth and is thought to be an environment similar to that in which our solar system was born 4.5 billion years ago.

The international team of researchers who published the images intend to study the new data to better understand the conditions that prevailed during the creation of our solar system.

Obtaining these images is one of the top priorities of the James Webb Space Telescope mission, for which more than 100 scientists from 18 countries have joined forces.

“We are amazed by the spectacular images of the Orion Nebula,” said astrophysicist Els Peters of the University of Western Ontario in Canada. “They allow us to better understand how massive stars transform the clouds of gas and dust in which they were born,” he added.

The nebulae are shrouded in a lot of dust, making them extremely difficult to see with telescopes like the Hubble. The cutting-edge James Webb Space Telescope has equipment that allows it to “see” through these layers of dust.

Breathtaking images of the stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by the James Webb Space Telescope shed light on an environment similar to our own solar system when it formed over 4.5 billion years ago. https://t.co/THs0OlRJQq pic.twitter.com/GlKFVesG59

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“We hope to get to the point of understanding the entire cycle of star birth,” says astrophysicist Edwin Bergin of the University of Michigan in the US.

The James Webb Space Telescope, a $10 billion technological masterpiece, launched about eight months ago and is nearly 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

Source: APE-MPE, AFP.