Ressler The James Webb Space Telescope has peered at some very, very distant objects, but despite its name, Webb's latest target is in our own galaxy. The Extreme Outer Galaxy is a dense star-forming region at the very edge of the Milky Way.

Astronomers have directed NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists call this region the Extreme Outer Galaxy due to its location more than 58,000 light-years away from the Galactic Center.

Astronomers pointed the powerful James Webb Space Telescope at a distant zone dubbed the "Extreme Outer Galaxy," and zoomed in on dense cosmic clouds containing clusters of stars. In unprecedented resolution of this region, they spotted vibrant star formation, and potent jets of material ejecting from these hot objects.

Among the Milky Way’s outskirts is a firecracker show of star formation. How do environmental factors affect the star formation process? To help answer this question, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope depicts the "extreme outer galaxy" in unprecedented detail, NASA researchers say.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and producing a stunning new image.