The birth of young stars in the Rho Ophiuchi complex celebrates the first year of the James Webb Space Telescope’s mission
An image of part of the Rho Ophiuchi complex captured by the James Webb Space Telescope was chosen to mark the first anniversary of the release of the first official images in astronomy’s new flagship instrument’s science mission. The NIRCam instrument captured details of this giant molecular cloud that forms one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth. Delays and various problems had led to postpone many time Webb’s launch date but in the last year, all the promises of progress in the field of astronomy have been kept and this is only the beginning.
