James Webb telescope: Baby star launches giant jets and shocks - BBC News
The James Webb observatory records the giant jets and shocks created by a birthing star in Orion.
2 days agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, NASA/ESA/CSA/M. McCAUGHREAN & S. PEARSONImage caption, The HH212 structure is 1.6 light-years in lengthBy Jonathan AmosScience correspondentImagine you could go back in time 4.6 billion years and take a picture of our Sun just as it was being born. What would it look like?
Well, you can get a clue from this glorious new image acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
Towards the centre of this object, called HH212, is a star coming into existence that is probably no more than 50,000 years old.
The scene would have looked much the same when our Sun was a similar age.
You can't actually see the glow from the protostar itself because it's hidden within a dense, spinning disc of gas and dust.
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