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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured the infrared light of numerous features that previously were impossible to see beyond…
An image of FS Tau captured by Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), with compass arrows, scale bar, and color key for…
A comparison between the observations of FS Tau by NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. Hubble’s visible-light view shows…
In infrared light, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals bright protostars in star system FS Tau and a tapestry of…
NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer) mission has mapped interstellar ice…
The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the actively forming protostar EC 53 (circled at left)…
Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline silicates,…
This image of protostar EC 53 in the Serpens Nebula, captured by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near Infrared Camera…
This illustration represents half the disk of gas and dust surrounding the protostar EC 53. Stellar outbursts periodically form crystalline…
