Friday, November 18, 2022

Webb telescope reveals blazing hourglass around forming star

The James Webb Space Telescope unveiled its latest image of celestial majesty on Wednesday, an ethereal hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its center.
The colorful clouds are only visible in infrared light, so had never been seen before being captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), NASA and the European Space Agency said in a statement.
The very young star, known as protostar L1527, is hidden in darkness by the edge of a rotating disk of gas at the neck of the hourglass.
However light spills out from the top and bottom of the disk, lighting up the hourglass-shaped clouds.

Webb telescope reveals blazing hourglass around forming star

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