"James Webb" showed a photo of the newborn star

James Webb Space Telescope showed exciting new image. On it is the protostar L1527 from the constellation Taurus. Clouds of gas and dust around it form a bright hourglass, visible only in infrared light. Thanks to the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam), the telescope was able to capture them.

Clouds of blue and orange outline the cavities that form when a star ejects materials into space, which then collide with surrounding matter. The colors of such clouds are reflected by the layers of dust between them by the telescope.

L1527 itself belongs to class 0 protostars. She is about 100,000 years old, which makes her very young by space standards. That is why it is still shrouded in a cocoon of clouds of dust and gas - and we were able to get such an unusual photo.

Previously, "James Webb" has already shown pictures Neptune, auroras on Jupiter, forges of stars in the constellation "Tarantula" and even "fingerprint» in deep space.