See a new star being born in stunning James Webb image
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the birth of a new star. As dust and gas clump together and eventually collapses under the force of gravity, it becomes aprotostar: the core of a new star, rotating and forming a magnetic field, throwing off material in two dramatic jets of gas. This process is on display in this image of the cloud L1527, taken using Webb’s NIRCam instrument....