Star-forming Region G339.88-1.26 in Ara: Wide-field view | Webb Telescope

Star-forming Region G339.88-1.26 in Ara: Wide-field view | Webb Telescope

The protostellar object G339.88-1.26 lies 8,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Ara. This appears to be the early stages of a massive binary star formation.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, the European Space Agency (ESA) provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle. Working with partners, ESA was responsible for the development and qualification of Ariane 5 adaptations for the Webb mission and for the procurement of the launch service by Arianespace. ESA also provided the workhorse spectrograph NIRSpec and 50% of the mid-infrared instrument MIRI that was designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the University of Arizona.

Image Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/J.Roger

Image Processing: Andrea Luck

Release Date: April 15, 2025

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