NASA published a new image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, in which stars appear more than 10 billion years ago, which are the primitive form of stars during the formation process in the early universe, and the image shows a small group of stars NGC 346, which is more than 200,000 light-years away from Earth, according to what was published by the British newspaper “Daily Mail”.
The stars of NGC 346 are a group of open stars with an associated nebula located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy next to the Milky Way, and the image he took James Webb Telescope It is of great importance because it resembles the conditions of the early universe when the formation of stars was at its peak, and astronomers believe that discovering these stars can help to know how they were formed regarding two or three billion years following the Big Bang, following which the earth was formed in its current form.
The emergence of protostars.. beginning to reveal the process of star formation
Margaret Mixner, scientist astronomy In the Universities Space Research Association, I confirmed that the appearance of NGC 346 stars will help us reveal more regarding the thousands of regions in which this type of star is located, and will provide us with a great opportunity to explore the conditions that existed at that time in the universe.
For the first time, the full sequence of star formation has been discovered
Mixner added that this is the first time that we can discover the full sequence of star formation, and the researchers hope that observing the primary stars that are still in the process of formation will reveal whether the star formation process in the Small Magellanic Galaxy is different from that in the Milky Way.