UF Astronomers Use James Webb Space Telescope To Uncover Hidden Stars in the Milky Way’s Largest Stellar Nursery (UF News)

sooyoungryu — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:36:23 +0000

Astronomers at the University of Florida are using the world’s most powerful telescope to reveal secrets of the largest star-forming cloud in our galaxy.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, UF researcher Nazar Budaiev, along with Associate Professor of Astronomy Adam Ginsburg, Ph.D. and an international team of astronomers, captured the first detailed views of Sagittarius B2, a massive cloud of gas and dust near the center of the Milky Way. Often called a “stellar nursery,” Sgr B2 is the most active birthplace of stars in our galaxy.

What the astronomers saw was unexpected, and the images opened an entirely new window into the cloud’s hidden complexity.

UF Scientists Probe the Cosmos With the New James Webb Space Telescope

Sara Dagen — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The James Webb Space Telescope launched on Christmas Day, 2021, and the instrument was so complex that it took months for us to peer through the new telescope. Then in July of 2022 we got our first look at images from the most advanced space observatory ever made. The telescope’s data will transform how we understand our universe, and University of Florida astronomers and physicists are on the vanguard of these discoveries.

Here are six projects that will help answer enduring questions about the universe: how did everything we see come to be; how did Earth and the planets come together; and are we alone in the cosmos — or is there life out there waiting to be discovered?

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UF Astronomers Use James Webb Space Telescope To Uncover Hidden Stars in the Milky Way’s Largest Stellar Nursery (UF News)

UF Scientists Probe the Cosmos With the New James Webb Space Telescope