New photos from the James Webb telescope: "The view leaves you breathless, a huge nursery of stars"

NASA officials continued to release color photos from the James Webb Space Telescope. Voice of America.

Four photos released Tuesday show the Carina Nebula, which is about 7.600 light-years away and can only be seen from Earth's southern hemisphere. Stars are constantly emerging and disappearing in it, and it was discovered in 1752.

It contains the large star Eta Carinae, formed about 2,6 million years ago, which experts say is very unstable.

"The breath-taking view reveals new details about this vast nursery of stars. For the first time, we saw new stars that were completely hidden from us until now," said Amber Stron - a representative of NASA.

Previously, on Monday in the company of NASA representatives, US President Joseph Biden released the first color photo from the James Webb Space Telescope.

The photo shows a mixture of distant galaxies located at a cosmic distance hitherto unrecorded by mankind.

"The first photo from the Webb Space Telescope is a historic moment for science and technology. For astronomy and space exploration. America and all of humanity," the US president wrote on Twitter.

The photo was released at a ceremony at the White House in which, in addition to Biden, NASA administrator Bill Nelson also participated.

The image, which shows numerous galaxies, is the deepest view ever into the universe. Part of the photo also shows light from the period shortly after the Big Bang, which happened 13,8 billion years ago, reports the Associated Press agency.

Biden, before publishing the photo, said that it was "the oldest documented light in the history of the cosmos from more than 13 billion years ago."

One of the scientists on the project, Jonathan Gardner, pointed out that "the web can see back to the period immediately after the Big Bang, following galaxies so far away that it took billions of years for light to reach the telescope from those galaxies."

Over the next few days, astronomers will calculate how old those galaxies are, Web Project lead scientist Klaus Pontopidan said last month.

The plan is to "go" so far with the help of the telescope that scientists will have an insight into the early days of the universe, about 13 billion years ago, and get an even clearer picture of nearby space objects, including our solar system.

The $10 billion telescope with a 6,5 meter diameter primary mirror was launched in December 2021.