By: Israel Durán
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | 18:46 hrs.
Photo: IAS/Paris-Saclay University, CNRS
The James Webb Telescope, the largest and most powerful observer in history, continues to surprise with its incredible discoveries, this time, it managed to see never-before-seen places in the Horsehead Nebula.
This is located in the western side of the Orion B molecular cloud, among turbulent waves of dust and gas, 1,300 light years from Earthand is illuminated by a nearby hot star that has illuminated it since its creation, the product of a collapse of an interstellar cloud of material.
Furthermore, this Nebula is very important for scientists, Since a variety of subjects can be analyzed there, that is why these new images are crucial for new research.
James Webb and a new image of the Horsehead Nebula
Thanks to these images, Experts have been able to analyze the physical structures of the photodissociation region (PDR) since Horse’s Head is one of the most recognized.
Besides, Due to its proximity and geometry, it also allows studying the evolution of the chemical characteristics of gas.s and dust or how radiation interacts with interstellar matter.
Others One of the important points that has allowed us to study these images are the effects of attenuation and dust emissionin addition to analyzing the multidimensional shape of the nebula.
NowThanks to the images, experts have proposed studying the spectroscopic data obtained by James Webb to analyze the evolution of the physical and chemical properties of the Nebula.
