Webb Space Telescope Reveals Unprecedented Details of Milky Way's Core

The telescope's NIRCam instrument captures a dense star-forming area, offering new insights into star formation and galaxy dynamics.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of the Sagittarius C region near the Milky Way’s core, revealing a dense star-forming area with numerous protostars and infrared-dark clouds.
The observation offers new perspectives on star formation and the dynamics of our galaxy’s center.
The star-forming region, named Sagittarius C (Sgr C), is about 300 light-years from the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.
Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument also captured large-scale emission from ionized hydrogen surrounding the lower side of the dark cloud, shown cyan-colored in the image.
The galactic center is close enough to study individual stars with the Webb telescope, allowing astronomers to gather unprecedented information on how stars form, and how this process may depend on the cosmic environment.