{"id":252701,"date":"2023-10-05T05:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T09:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=309071"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:03:14","slug":"the-james-webb-telescope-shows-us-unpublished-images-of-the-orion-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-james-webb-telescope-shows-us-unpublished-images-of-the-orion-nebula\/","title":{"rendered":"The James Webb Space Telescope provides us with unprecedented images of the Orion Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The James Webb<\/strong> Space Telescope periodically sends us truly astonishing images of space. Thanks to this powerful tool, we have been able to observe dark stars<\/a><\/strong>, galaxies older than ours<\/a><\/strong>, a significant cosmic puzzle<\/strong> (in the literal sense)<\/a>, and an impressive photograph of the Ring Nebula<\/strong><\/a>, among other wonders.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Now, the James Webb Space Telescope once again astounds us with stunning mosaics of another nebula: the Orion Nebula<\/strong>. This vast region composed of gas and stellar dust is one of the closest to the Solar System, located just 1,344 light-years away from us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To create these captivating mosaics, more than 3,000 individual images<\/strong> captured by the telescope were used. According to Space.com<\/a><\/strong>, the final result has been added to the European Space Agency’s ESASky <\/strong>application, an interactive map of the entire sky with a user-friendly interface that allows the public to view incredible images of the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Orion Nebula is a “stellar nursery” composed of around 2,800 young stars<\/strong>, as well as many more that are still in the process of forming within a dense veil of gas and dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the Near Infrared Camera, or NIRCam<\/a><\/strong>, on the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists were able to peer through the stellar gas and dust, discovering proto-stellar discs, streams of nascent stars, and “free-floating” planets<\/strong> (those not orbiting any star).<\/p>\n\n\n

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As of today, the James Webb Space Telescope has detected nearly 40 pairs of free-floating giant gas planets<\/strong>, known as JuMBO <\/strong>(short for Jupiter Mass Objects). Although free-floating planets have been previously discovered in the Orion Nebula, the JuMBO found in regions like the Trapezium Cluster<\/strong> continue to astonish the scientific community due to their tendency to come in pairs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The James Webb Space Telescope leaves us fascinated again thanks to some impressive images of the Orion Nebula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":252704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[4289],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-252701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionnasa-app"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317461,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252701\/revisions\/317461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252701"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=252701"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=252701"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=252701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}