The James Webb Space Telescope captured a new image of a young sun-like protostar spitting out gas and dust that forms stunning shockwaves when viewed in infrared.
The James Webb Space Telescope has spied a baby, sun-like star spewing out supersonic streams of gas and dust into space, triggering visually stunning shockwaves that researchers say"look like lightsabers."
HH 211 is located around 1,000 light-years from Earth in the Perseus constellation and was discovered in 1994. Based on the size of the jets, the protostar is likely only a few thousand years old and roughly 8% as massive as the sun, according to NASA. However, the mini star will grow to around the same size as the sun over the next few million years. This suggests that our own star may have once looked an awful lot like HH 211.
The infrared images suggest the jets are mostly made from molecules — two or more atoms connected by a chemical bond — including carbon monoxide, silicon monoxide and molecular hydrogen. This surprised the researchers, who expected that, like other bipolar jets, HH 211 would predominantly be made from individual atoms or ions.
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