Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · Jun 8 This is a stellar nursery. Where stars and their planets are being born. Part of the Orion Molecular Cloud, imaged with JWST.
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This image is about 150 lightyears across, and is in a region of space around 1,280 lyr from Earth. The scene is processed from infrared image data acquired by JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2... Credit: ESA/Webb/NASA/CSA/T. Megeath/M. Zamani/M. H. Özsaraç
At first glance, I thought this was a developing embryo...
Type-0 stars are scary