CNET
By Eric Mack
Dec. 15, 2022 11:42 a.m. PT
Thanks to the highly advanced new tools of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists are taking a closer look at one of the observatory’s most entrancing early images and marveling at what they’ve found.
Astronomers aimed Webb’s infrared instruments at the so-called “Cosmic Cliffs” within the massive Carina Nebula and, more specifically, the star cluster NGC 3324. The resulting images were in the very first batch of observations we saw from the brand new telescope back in July, but now researchers have done a deeper analysis of the data and found a crop of newborn stars in a rarely seen stage of development.