Just 300 light years from the supermassive black hole that churns in the Milky Way's center, there's a hub of about 500,000 stars. JWST saw this place by peering 25,000 light-years from Earth, a relatively short distance by space standards.
"The galactic center is a crowded, tumultuous place..." Rubén Fedriani, a co-investigator of the project at the Instituto AstrofÃsica de AndalucÃa in Spain said.
This image may help tackle a question of nature versus nurture, offering clues about how a cosmic environment impacts star formation. And some places, like the rose-colored cloud on the image's right side, have never been seen before in this much detail.
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