NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured the process in which stars are born. This looks as interesting as it sounds, with the gas and dust giving it an explosive, hourglass-type appearance.
Experts as NASA have released an image of “fireworks” around a star being born. In the image taken with infrared instruments onboard the JWST, the protostar, which is the gas and dust that collapses in on itself to form a star, is seen growing toward the center of the hourglass. The star grows at the expense of the material that planets can form from, termed a protoplanetary disk. This is seen edge-on in the image as a dark line.
L1527, a molecular cloud that contains a star being born, has an hourglass appearance with vibrant colors throughout. Image provided by NASA.NASA