The James Webb space telescope has revealed its latest image of celestial majesty, a hourglass of orange and blue dust being shot out from a newly forming star at its centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The colourful clouds are only visible in infrared light, so had never been seen before being captured by Webb\u2019s Near Infrared Camera, Nasa and the European Space Agency said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The very young star, known as protostar L1527, is hidden in darkness by the edge of a rotating disk of gas at the neck of the hourglass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, light spills out from the top and bottom of the disk, lighting up the hourglass shaped clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The clouds are created by material ejected from the star colliding with surrounding matter, The dust is thinnest in the blue sections and thickest in the orange parts, it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The protostar, which is just 100,000 years old and at the earliest stage of star formation, is not yet able to generate its own energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The surrounding black disk, which is about the size of our solar system, will feed material to the protostar until it eventually reaches the threshold for nuclear fusion to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The protostar is located in the Taurus molecular cloud, a stellar nursery home to hundreds of nearly formed stars around 430 light years from Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The protostar is located in the Taurus molecular cloud, a stellar nursery home to hundreds of nearly formed stars around 430 light years from Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the main goals for the $10 billion telescope is to study the life cycle of stars. Another main research focus is on exoplanets, planets outside Earth\u2019s solar system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The James Webb space telescope has revealed its latest image of celestial…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yareport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}