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James Webb telescope's latest discovery: newborn stars emitting jets of gas in the same direction


The James Webb telescope just set another first for astronomy when it detected a group of "protostellar outflows." These ejections are jets of high-speed gas from newborn...

Since then, the new space-based observatory developed by NASA, ESA, and the Canadian Space Agency has provided invaluable images and scientific data about the cosmos. Webb detected the phenomenon within the Serpens Nebula, a vast cosmic gas cloud hosting a "particularly dense" cluster of newly forming protostars. These protostellar outflows in the Serpens Nebula are a once-in-a-lifetime, time-limited occurrence, explaining why scientists couldn't detect the transient phenomenon before Webb.

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