- By Jonathan Amos
- BBC Science Correspondent
Image source, NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI
Happy first science birthday to the James Webb Space Telescope.
It’s exactly one year since the super observatory was handed over to astronomers to begin using in anger.
And to celebrate, the US space agency Nasa has just released a spectacular image of one of the most photographed parts of the sky.
It’s the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, which is the nearest star-forming region in space to us, being just 400 light-years away.
Both professional and amateur stargazers like to look at Rho Ophiuchi, which can be…
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