A stellar debut.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look inside a vibrant and glittering cluster of newborn stars drifting in the cosmos — some nearly eight times hotter than the sun.

The stunning new images, released Thursday by NASA, showcase the Lobster Nebula — a dazzling orange and golden cloud of star-forming dust and gas housing a constellation of infant stars known as Pismis 24. 3

Scorching baby stars of varying shapes and sizes fill the core of the Lobster Nebula , located roughly 5,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation Scorpius, according to the space agency.

A single light-year is 5.8 trillion miles. 3

“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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