Our first stop is Rho Ophiuchi, located 390 light-years from ... Next, we visit the Orion Nebula, about 1,500 light-years away in the Milky Way. Visible just below the "belt" in the Orion ...

NASA James Webb Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope's look at the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex. The image showcase a "small star-forming region" within the complex that lies about 390 light-years away. Credit ...

The colorful Rho Ophiuchi star formation region, about 400 light-years from Earth, contains very cold (around -250 degrees Celsius), dense clouds of cosmic gas and dust, in which new stars are ...