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Orion Bar:

This image, taken by Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), shows a part of the Orion Nebula known as the Orion Bar. It is a region where energetic ultraviolet light from the Trapezium Cluster, located off the upper-left corner, interacts with dense molecular clouds. The energy of the stellar radiation is slowly eroding the Orion Bar, and this has a profound effect on the molecules and chemistry in the protoplanetary disks that have formed around newborn stars here.

Within this image lies a young star system, designated as d203-506, which features a protoplanetary disk. Astronomers used Webb to detect a carbon molecule known as methyl cation in that disk for the first time. That molecule is essential because it aids the formation of more complex carbon-based molecules.

Constellation:            Orion

Dimensions:              2.08 x 2.31 arcminutes

Distance:                   1,350 light-years

Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, PDRs4ALL ERS Team, Mahdi Zamani (ESA/Webb)