The star is a few tens of thousands of years old, a baby compared to our sun which is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years old.
Webb’s near-infrared imaging illuminated Herbig-Haro objects surrounding the star. HH objects are the regions that form around a newborn star after stellar winds or jets of gas spew out from its origin, NASA said.
It is possible that this Class 0 protostar, which is currently dubbed HH 211, could eventually grow into a star not unlike our own sun. In the image shared on Sept. 15, HH 211 showed an outflow from the baby star which has a mass of about 8% of our sun. A series of bow shocks are showcased in the lower-left and upper-right sections of the image and NASA believes the characteristics of the newborn star suggest it may be an unresolved binary star.
"The infrared emission of the star’s outflows penetrates the obscuring gas and dust, making a Herbig-Haro object like HH 211 ideal for observation with Webb’s sensitive infrared instruments. Molecules excited by the turbulent conditions, including molecular hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and silicon monoxide, emit infrared light that Webb can collect to map out the structure of the outflows," according to NASA.
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