But the longer you’re in close quarters with someone, the more disruptive that can be.” “If it’s for a couple days, probably no big deal. “I think of it like camping,” Flynn-Evans said. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images) NASA/Getty Images North America/Getty ImagesĪstronauts face mental and emotional challenges for deep space travel. Kelly and Kopra also tackled several get-ahead tasks during their three hour, 16 minute spacewalk. NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Tim Kopra released brake handles on crew equipment carts on either side of the space stations mobile transporter rail car so it could be latched in place ahead of Wednesdays docking of a Russian cargo resupply spacecraft. To the left of this star is a more wispy, indistinct region, like this star is also beginning to clear out space around itself like the one at the center of the dusty cave below.IN SPACE - DECEMBER 21: In this handout photo provided by NASA, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is seen floating during a spacewalk on Decemin space.

At the top center of the image, a star displays another, larger pinched dark shadow, this time vertically. The image’s largest jets of red material emanate from within this dark cloud, thick and displaying structure like the rough face of a cliff, glowing brighter at the edges. The dark shadow of the cloud appears pinched in the center, with light emerging in a triangle shape above and below the pinch, revealing the presence of a star inside the dark cloud. A dark cloud sits at the top of the arch of the glowing dust cave, with one streamer curling down the right-hand side. Smaller stars are scattered around the image. Above the arched top of the dust cave three groupings of stars with diffraction spikes are arranged. The dust of the cave structure becomes wispy toward eight o’clock, trailing off and allowing stars and distant galaxies to show through.

Red dual opposing jets coming from young stars fill the darker top half of the image, while a glowing pale-yellow, cave-like structure is bottom center, tilted toward two o’clock, with a bright star at its center. NASA provided the following description for the photo above: “An active star-forming region. Our own Sun experienced a phase like this, long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another’s star’s story,” said Klaus Pontoppidan, who served as Webb project scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, since before the telescope’s launch and through the first year of operations. “Webb’s image of Rho Ophiuchi allows us to witness a very brief period in the stellar lifecycle with new clarity. It is 390 light-years away, which means the Webb telescope can get highly detailed close-up images. The new Webb image released on July 12, 2023, features the nearest star-forming region to Earth.

Every new image is a new discovery, empowering scientists around the globe to ask and answer questions they once could never dream of,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “In just one year, the James Webb Space Telescope has transformed humanity’s view of the cosmos, peering into dust clouds and seeing light from faraway corners of the universe for the very first time. Since then, Webb has discovered some of the earliest galaxies ever observed, delivered detailed views of the atmospheres of planets outside our solar system, and captured new views of planets within our solar system. Webb’s first full-color images were released on July 12, 2022.

NASA celebrated the first year of discoveries from the James Webb Telescope with the release of a new image.

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