Description
Today we're taking you 7,600 light years from Hollywood to show you where stars are really made. The NGC 3324 cluster is a stellar nursery where immense gravitational forces compress cosmic dust and gas into the extremely dense, high-energy objects we call stars. Of course, outside of 'Star Trek,' no human has boldly gone this far into outer space. So how are we seeing these ' Cosmic Cliffs ' with such clarity? With the help of a really, really good zoom lens—in this case the James Webb Space Telescope . Able to spot young stars emitting infrared light through dense nebulae, NASA's newest imaging satellite captures these origin stories as never before told.