James Webb Space Telescope
Launched in 2021, JWST is a space telescope developed by NASA, ESA, and CSA, designed to observe the universe in infrared wavelengths, enabling the study of the early universe, star formation, and planetary systems.
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APODs including "James Webb Space Telescope"
Young Stars, Stellar Jets
28/07/2023
High-speed outflows of molecular gas from a pair of actively forming young stars shine in infrared light, revealing themselves in this NIRcam image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 46/47, the young stars are lodged within a dark nebula that is largely opaque when viewed in visible light. The pair lie at the center of the prominent reddish diffraction spikes in the NIRcam image. Their energetic stellar jets extend for nearly a light-year, burrowing into the dark interstellar material. A tantalizing object to explore with Webb's infrared capabilities, this young star system is relatively nearby, located only some 1,140 light-years distant in the nautical constellation Vela.