The Webb telescope, which was launched in 2021 and began collecting data last year, has reshaped the understanding of the early universe while taking stunning pictures of the cosmos. Rho Ophiuchi is only about a million years old, a blink of the eye in cosmic time. Also Read | NASA’s James Webb telescope captures first image of planet outside Milky WaySince becoming operational, Webb has revealed the existence of the earliest-known galaxies and black holes. The Rho Ophiuchi images shows how Webb gives us a new window into the formation of stars and planets," Pontoppidan said. The orbiting observatory was designed to be far more sensitive than its Hubble Space Telescope predecessor.

Source: The Hindu July 13, 2023 19:32 UTC