The JWST's views do not disappoint.
The jets, which are together called Herbig-Haro 211 , live in an energetic pocket of space located about 1,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation. In this region, a protostar is actively sucking in surrounding gas and dust to grow larger, but is meanwhile shedding material into space in what astronomers call a bipolar outflow.
The protostar is suspected to be a binary star and likely represents what our sun used to be like when it was just a few tens of thousands years old with just 8% of its current mass."It will eventually grow into a star like the sun," JWST representatives wrote in a
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