{"id":484178,"date":"2026-06-18T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/484178\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T19:49:07","slug":"stages-of-star-formation-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/484178\/","title":{"rendered":"Stages of Star Formation – NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"

This image, captured by NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope and released on June 5, 2026, shows just a small portion of one of the Orion Molecular Clouds, a long and massive filament of cold gas and dust beyond the Orion Nebula. Every stage of star formation \u2014 from the youngest stellar embryos to protoplanetary discs to newly-minted pre-main sequence stars \u2014 is contained within this scene which stretches 150 light-years across.<\/p>\n

Read more about this image.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: ESA\/Webb, NASA & CSA, T. Megeath, M. Zamani (ESA\/Webb); Acknowledgement: M. H. \u00d6zsara\u00e7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This image, captured by NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope and released on June 5, 2026, shows just a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[12488,111,139,69,147,392,5436],"class_list":["post-484178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space","tag-stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}