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.
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