Zoom video: Pismis 24
This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to reveal a sparkling scene of star birth that was captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. What appears to be a craggy, starlit mountaintop kissed by wispy clouds is actually a cosmic dust-scape being eaten away by the blistering winds and radiation of nearby, massive, infant stars.
Called Pismis 24, this young star cluster resides in the core of the nearby Lobster Nebula, approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. Home to a vibrant stellar nursery and one of the closest sites of massive star birth, Pismis 24 provides rare insight into large and massive stars. This region is one of the best places to explore the properties of hot young stars and how they evolve.
Credit:NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ESA/Hubble, CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. De Martin, D. Minniti, T.A. Rector, J. Miller, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)
Music: Tonelabs – The Red North (www.tonelabs.com)
About the Video
| Id: | weic2518b | |
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| Release date: | 4 September 2025, 16:00 | |
| Related releases: | weic2518 | |
| Duration: | 01 m 30 s | |
| Frame rate: | 25 fps | |
