Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the star-forming region called W51, revealing "hidden" stars that were invisible to other telescopes.
This is far from the first time that astronomers have captured images of W51, but the JWST observations reveal these young stars like never before.
Aside from their considerable aesthetic value, the images are of great scientific interest too. They could help researchers determine how massive stars like those that populate W51 form. The formation mechanism of high-mass stars is much less well understood than that of low-mass stellar bodies.
