Webb telescope photographs baby star resembling our sun blasting hot molecular material
SalonResearchers in Dublin documented a newly born star with an infrared camera using the James Webb Space Telescope, which showed hot molecular material jetting out in opposite directions from the new star in a formation that resembles Darth Maul's lightsaber. The team published a paper in Nature describing their findings last week and today released an ultra-high-resolution capture of the beams emitted from the star, named Herbig-Haro 211. In this star system, scientists have observed huge bow shocks undulating toward and away from us, as well as an inner jet that seems to "wiggle" in symmetry on either side of the star. According to NASA, this "suggests that the protostar may in fact be an unresolved binary star," meaning there could actually be two stars beneath this mysterious cloud of molecules.
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