Webb Spots Huge Cluster of Protostars in Milky Way’s Center: Sagittarius C | Sci.News

An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of Sagittarius C from Webb’s NIRCam instrument. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / Samuel Crowe, University of Virginia.

Webb Spots Huge Cluster of Protostars in Milky Way’s Center: Sagittarius C

Sagittarius C lies approximately 300 light-years from Sagittarius A*, the 4.3-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy.