A star is born.
The James Webb Space Telescope's latest mind-bending image just dropped — and this one is, in a word, splendid.about the finding, the telescope's Near-Infrared Camera was put to incredible use when capturing the "once-hidden features" of the beginnings of a star.
Known as "protostars," celestial objects like this one — found inside an uber-absorbant "dark nebula" cloud — are not yet stars, but will be soon. In short, the Webb telescope capture imagery of a star being born. As NASA notes, the fledgling star itself is hidden within the tiny "neck" disk of the spectacular, fiery hourglass shape in the image — which is, as NASA notes, "about the size of our solar system" — and the colorful lights seen below and above this neck are emitted by the protostar's birth.Hidden in the neck of this “hourglass” of light are the very beginnings of a new star — a protostar.
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Fiery James Webb Space Telescope image shows the early days of star formationRobert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University. Follow him on Twitter sciencef1rst.
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