Like a fantastical scene in “The Lord of the Rings,” this image from the James Webb Space Telescope is actually a portrait of star birth in the core of the nearby Lobster Nebula. The serene and starlit mountaintop is really a cosmic dust-scape being eaten away by the scorching ultraviolet light and relentless winds of massive, newborn stars.
Called Pismis 24, this young star cluster resides approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. Ultraviolet light from the super-hot, infant stars is carving a cavity into the wall of the star-forming nebula. This region is one of the best places to explore the properties of hot young stars and how they evolve.
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