The James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its latest image of celestial majesty on Wednesday, an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its center.
The colorful clouds are only visible in infrared light, so had never been seen before being captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera , NASA and the European Space AgencyThe very young star, known as protostar L1527, is hidden in darkness by the edge of a rotating disk of gas at the neck of the hourglass.
However light spills out from the top and bottom of the disk, lighting up the hourglass-shaped clouds. The clouds are created by material ejected from the star colliding with surrounding matter, the statement said. The dust is thinnest in the blue sections and thickest in the orange parts,The protostar, which is just 100,000 years old and at the earliest stage of star formation, is not yet able to generate its own energy.
Ejections from the protostar have cleared out cavities above and below it, whose boundaries glow orange and blue in this infrared view. The surrounding black disk, which is around the size of our solar system, will feed material to the protostar until it eventually reaches"the threshold for
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