NASA just released the first pictures the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ever taken of jets of gas coming from new stars. These jets, which are moving very quickly, hit gas and dust in the Serpens Nebula, which is 1,300 light-years from Earth.
The picture shows the nebula, which is home to a thick group of stars that are about 100,000 years old. It is made up of thin layers of orange, red, and blue gas and dust.
Klaus Pontoppidan from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said that this event records how stars formed in the past. Before, these things were either blobs or couldn’t be seen with the naked eye. But Webb’s infrared vision was able to see through the thick dust to find the stars and their streams.
NASA described the picture, pointing out a bright star in the middle with an hourglass shadow and a vertical crack in the shape of an eye close by. Small spots of light with eight-pointed diffraction spikes that are unique to the Webb Telescope are spread out in the field.
The picture has gotten more than four lakh likes and many comments on social media since it was posted.
