NASA's Webb Telescope to unravel riddles of a stellar nursery
Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 12:00
in Astronomy & Space
A bustling stellar nursery in the picturesque Orion Nebula will be a subject of study for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2021. A team led by Mark McCaughrean, the Webb Interdisciplinary Scientist for Star Formation, will survey an inner region of the nebula called the Trapezium Cluster. This cluster is home to a thousand or so young stars, all crammed into a space only 4 light-years across—about the distance from our Sun to Alpha Centauri.