📢 #Webb reveals cosmic cliffs and glittering landscape of star birth. This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by the NASA/ESA/CSA new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth. Read more at the link in bio or below 👇 Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest “peaks” in this image are about 58 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the centre of the bubble, above the area shown in this image. NIRCam – with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity – unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies. In MIRI’s view, young stars and their dusty, planet-forming disks shine brightly in the mid-infrared, appearing pink and red. MIRI reveals structures that are embedded in the dust and uncovers the stellar sources of massive jets and outflows. With MIRI, the hot dust and soot-like material on the surface of the ridges glow, giving the appearance of jagged rocks. These observations of NGC 3324 will shed light on the process of star formation. Webb will address some of the great, open questions of modern astrophysics: What determines the number of stars that form in a certain region? Why do stars form with a certain mass? Webb will also reveal the impact of star formation on the evolution of gigantic clouds of gas and dust. View higher resolution images and read more at the link in bio. 📷 @nasa @europeanspaceagency @canadianspaceagency STScI, and the Webb ERO Production Team #NASA #ESA #CSA #Webb #Space #Telescope #ESAWebb #neverstopexploring #instaspace #WebbSeesFarther #EuropeMeetsWebb