The center of our galaxy has long been a mystery, specifically because there is a massive cloud of dust and gas at the center. But it just so happens that the James Webb Space telescopes’s infrared camera can look straight through a lot of that and these images were recently captured by NASA’s device.
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00:00 The center of our galaxy has long been a mystery, specifically because there's a massive cloud
00:08 of dust and gas at its center.
00:09 But it just so happens that the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera can look
00:13 straight through a lot of that, and these images were recently captured by NASA's device.
00:18 And aside from being a view of an area quite inside our galaxy, they say this image alone
00:22 contains some 500,000 stars.
00:25 One of those stars in a region called Sagittarius C is only around 300 light years from the
00:29 supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
00:32 There's just one thing, astronomers don't really know how so many stars can form in
00:36 such a dense and irradiated region.
00:38 With the study lead saying about it, "There's never been any infrared data on this region
00:42 with the level of resolution and sensitivity we get with Webb, so we are seeing lots of
00:46 features here for the first time.
00:48 The area is around 25,000 light years away from our own planet."
00:51 And while there are many stars within this photo, experts say the James Webb Telescope
00:55 is powerful enough to study them individually, and they'll likely want to, as this area
00:59 is pumping out some weird stars, including a fledgling one that is more than 30 times
01:04 the mass of our sun.
01:05 What's more, there are even more stars in this area than we can even see.
01:08 But the cloud these stars are coming out of is so dense, we can't see the light from
01:12 the others.
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