When looking for answers in the cosmos, sometimes more questions appear.
on Wednesday offering the most detailed look yet at two actively forming young stars located 1,470 light-years from Earth in the Vela Constellation. In the image, the stars, named Herbig-Haro 46/47, are surrounded by a disk of material that"feeds" the stars as they grow for millions of years.
"It is probably a distant galaxy, or potentially interacting galaxies ," representatives of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, which manages JWST's science operations, told Space.com.
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