Shining Pismis 24 – NASA

The James Webb de la NASA space telescope captured this sparkling Star Birth scene in an image published on September 4, 2025. Called Pousmis 24, this young star cluster lies in the heart of the nebula of lobster nearby, around 5,500 light years of the earth in the scorpius of the constellation. Housing a dynamic stellar nursery and one of the sites closest to the massive star birth, PISMIS 24 provides rare information on the large and massive stars. Its proximity makes this region one of the best places to explore the properties of young hot stars and how they evolve.

Captured in the infrared light by the webb Nircam (near infrared camera), this image reveals thousands of stars of the jewelry type sizes and variable colors. The biggest and the brightest with the six -point diffraction tips are the most massive stars of the cluster. Hundreds to thousands of smaller members of the cluster appear to be white, yellow and red, according to their stellar type and the amount of dust by consecrating them. Webb also shows us tens of thousands of stars behind the cluster that are part of the Milky Way Galaxy.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STSCI