No more hiding, I’ll be shining, like I’m born to be! 🎶 Our NASAWebb Space Telescope captured newborn stars forming in clouds of dust and gas (colored golden and orange in this image) in a star-forming region called Pismis 24. Though these clouds can hide stars by trapping visible light within, in the infrared, the stars shine through the nebula and together appear to glow. In the center is Pismis 24-1, an object formerly thought to be a single massive star, now known to be at least two stars. At 74 and 66 solar masses, they are some of the most massive and luminous stars ever seen. They are blasting out scorching radiation and stellar winds that are carving a cavity into the wall of the star-forming nebula clouds below and at above right. The fierce forces shaping and compressing the spires in the glowing gas at the bottom of the scene cause new stars to form. The tallest spire spans about 5.4 light-years from the bottom of the image to its top. More than 200 solar systems could f...