Webb Snaps Highly Detailed Infrared Image of Actively Forming Stars

Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 27, 2023

Young stars are rambunctious! NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the "antics" of a pair of actively forming young stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47, in high-resolution near-infrared light. To find them, trace the bright pink and red diffraction spikes until you hit the center: The stars are within the orange-white splotch. They are buried deeply in a disk of gas and dust that feeds t