The Sagittarius C star-forming area observed by the James Webb Space Telescope
An image captured with the James Webb Space Telescope shows a star-forming area cataloged as Sagittarius C just 300 light-years away from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. In the heart of the galaxy, among half a million stars, there’s a cluster of protostars in the middle of a cloud so dense that the stars behind it are obscured even to the most powerful existing telescope. In contrast, protostars are visible to the NIRCam instrument in detail along with cosmic features that were previously unknown and astronomers have yet to identify.
