Webb Space Telescope marks 1st year of science with marvelous new image

NASA is celebrating the first year of the international James Webb Space Telescope's scientific operations with the release of a beautiful new image. 

The agency released the $10 billion-dollar observatory's snapshot of a small star-forming region in the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex.

It is the nearest star-forming region to Earth, and its proximity at 390 light-years allows for a detailed shot. 

There are no foreground stars in the intervening space.

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The region contains approximately 50 young stars, all of which are similar in mass to our sun – or smaller. 

The darkest areas of the picture show thick dust co...