The James Webb Space Telescope has captured this incredible photo of a star forming.
has captured a protostar that was previously hidden from other space telescopes in a dark cloud known as L1527. The photo reveals what appears as a “fiery hourglass” and gives astronomers insight into a new star’s formation.
“An edge-on protoplanetary disk is seen as a dark line across the middle of the neck. Light from the protostar leaks above and below this disk, illuminating cavities within the surrounding gas and dust,” the space agencyNASA says that the representative colors here are due to layers of dust between the James Webb Space Telescope and the dark clouds, and the blue areas are where that dust is the thinnest.
NASA and the Webb team say that L1527 is only about 100,000 years old, which in star terms is very young: NASA considers it a class 0 protostar, which is the earliest stage of star formation. Over time, it will continue to gather mass and its core will continue to compress and get closer to stable nuclear fusion.
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