The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released yet another new image. It provides new information on how stars formed in the early universe billions of years ago.
The image shows a young cluster of stars NGC 346, which is more than 200,000 light-years from Earth. Located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) – a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way – NGC 346 is interesting to astronomers because it resembles the conditions of the early Universe when star formation was at its peak.
Astronomers believe studying this region could help shed light on how the first stars formed during the “cosmic noon”. This was only two or three billion years after the Big Bang.
