By Dean Murray

A jaw-dropping new cosmic picture shows a stellar nursery of newborn stars.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the dramatic view of Pismis 24, a young star cluster in the core of the nearby Lobster Nebula, approximately 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius.

The space agency said the "sparkling scene of star birth" features two stars which are among the most massive and luminous ever seen.

NASA Webb Mission Team explained: "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.

"Home to a vibrant stellar nursery and one of the closest sites of massive star birth , Pismis 24 provides rare insight into

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