The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a star that hasn’t yet finished forming, along with a disc of debris that may eventually become planets
NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. Image processing: J. DePasquale, A. Pagan, and A. Koekemoer has taken an image of a protostar – an object that is massive enough to become a star but hasn’t yet begun the process of nuclear fusion – revealing details that have never been seen before., embedded within a dark cloud of dust and gas called L1527. It is only about 100,000 years old, putting it in the first stage of star formation, in which it is still slightly fluffy and lopsided.
That light is in infrared wavelengths, so it wouldn’t be visible to the naked eye even from nearby, but it fits neatly into the wavelength range used by JWST. The bright clouds in the image are created when the protostar blasts out plumes of material, which slam into the surrounding material, creating turbulence that prevents the formation of other stars within the protostar’s personal space.
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