A study of early images taken with the James Webb Space Telescope has apparently revealed previously obscured newborn stars thousands of light years away from Earth.
"What Webb gives us is a snapshot in time to see just how much star formation is going on in what may be a more typical corner of the universe that we haven't been able to see before," Rice University astronomer Megan Reiter, who led the study,Reiter and other researchers from the California Institute of Technology, University of Arizona, Queen Mary University in London and the United Kingdom's Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Scotland, analyzed a portion of images taken of...
Through their work, they discovered outflows of molecular hydrogen, many appearing to come from protostars that may eventually form into low-mass stars similar to Earth's sun. "Jets like these are signposts for the most exciting part of the star formation process," study co-author Nathan Smith of the University of Arizona said. "We only see them during a brief window of time when the protostar is actively accreting."
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