The Orion Nebula, which formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, is teeming with different colored gasses, molecular material, dust and scattered starlight and a new image snapped by 's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is the first to look at the cosmic formation's center, allowing researchers to better understand how massive stars are birthed by the colossal cloud of dust and gas. The image shows an open cluster of young massive stars that shape the cloud of dust and gas with its intense radiation and dense filaments that may play a key role in birthing new stars. The nebula was previously photographed by the Hubble Telescope in 2004, but this device uses visible light and its view was obscured by the large amounts of stardust.
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