NCG 346 is the name of a Dwarf Galaxy in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), close to the Milky Way, where ‘James Webb’ was reached captures stardust with palpable dynamism.

“Even if NGC 346 is now the only massive star-forming cluster in its galaxy, it provides us with a great opportunity to investigate the conditions that exist during the ‘cosmic day’,” said Margaret Meixner, an astronomer and principal investigator of the team of scientists.

This phenomenon was unexpected by astronomers who claim they focused on ‘James Webb’ near this region of space because they saw small amounts of dust. They get a shock.

The conditions and amounts of metal within the SMC are similar to those observed in galaxies billions of years ago. say the experts.

In this sense, they explain the galaxy formed about 2 billion years ago after the Big Bang and the formation rate was fast and dizzying.

As researchers seek to capture the process of star formation, they are trying to understand what the ‘protostellar’ process is like in the Milky Way. “They collect gas and dust that look like the bands in Webb’s image,” say the experts.

For the first time they could observe that the disk of the star was also accumulating star dust and that was it it is achieved through the infrared ‘James Webb’ lens.

“With Webb, we can probe lighter protostars, as small as a tenth of our sun, and find out whether their formation process was affected by their lower metal content.” recalls Olivia Jones of the British Center for Astronomical Technology.