NASA's powerful James Webb Space telescope has revealed a colorful spread of stars and cosmic dust in the Milky Way's most active star-forming region.

The telescope was studying Sagittarius B2, a massive molecular cloud, NASA said in a news release. The region is just a few hundred light-years from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way and is densely packed with stars, star-forming clouds and complex magnetic fields. Sagittarius B holds only 10% of the galactic center's gas, but produces 50% of its stars.

The Webb telescope's instruments can examine the infrared light that passes through the region to study what forms there.

An image taken by the Webb Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument shows warm dust and gas glowing in Sagittarius B2, with stars appearing as blue

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