The beginnings of a new star were captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, and like many other images from the JWST, it is just as mesmerizing. Known as protostar L1527 IRS, the new star is ...
An arresting view of L1527, a dark cloud 460 light-years away. Image processing by Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI). Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI NASA ...
Planetary solar systems like our own don't just pop into the universe fully formed — instead they evolve from a ring of gas and dust called a protoplanetary disk, which surrounds an early-stage star, ...
L1527, shown in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument), is a molecular cloud that harbors a protostar. It resides about 460 light-years from Earth in the ...
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James Webb's new image of L1527 Courtesy of NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. Image processing: J. DePasquale, A. Pagan, and A. Koekemoer (STScI) Looking at the James Webb Space Telescope’s latest ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomers have observed the eating habits of a newborn star — and like any youngster, it has an ...
Twelve thousand light-years from Earth, a star is forming. At first, it had all the marks of an aging star on its way to death. But new evidence published in the Astrophysical Journal shows that the ...
(Nanowerk News) Using observations from the ALMA radio observatory in Chile, researchers have observed, for the first time, a warped disk around an infant protostar that formed just several tens of ...
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