If “chaos are a ladder,” then bright stars formed by discordant gases and dust are the final examples. James Webber Telescope has Imaging One of the more dramatic stellar nurseries in the Milky Way, called Pismis 24, shows unprecedented details swirling dust and baby stars.
The image was captured in infrared light by Webb’s Nircam (near infrared camera), and the wrong color details were added thereafter. It shows the 24-star cluster of Pismis located in the lobster nebula, 5500 light-years from part of the Scorpius constellation. The heart of the cluster is the 24-1 star pismis at the top of the image, and the highest spire in the nebula points directly to it. It is actually composed of two stars that cannot be solved by telescopes, totaling 140 times the mass of the sun.
According to ESA, in dusty areas, super hot stars are as high as eight times the temperature of sunlight in the nebula, exploding “inflammation radiation and punishment winds.” This radiation is actually carving a cave onto the walls of the nebula, flowing out of the ridges of hot ionized gas. The white glowing outline along the highest peak is a veil of starlight with faint gas and dust.
In nebula, under the influence of gravity, gas, dust and other materials will eventually become huge enough to form dense areas of stars. Once those stars ignite and form enough formation under fusion, they in turn affect the nebula by ionizing hydrogen and creating huge solar winds, compressing dust and producing more stars.
The nebula is far beyond Nircam’s field of vision, and to give the idea of scale, the highest spire spans 5.4 light years from its tip to the bottom of the image. Our over 200 solar systems can fit the width of their tips.
