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Spectacular celestial image of a newborn star's dust looks like a 1990s psychedelic rave flier

Allan Rose Hill
Feb 10, 2025
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image: Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, Tazaki et al.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured this stunning image of the gas and dust around a newborn star in the constellation Taurus. And by newborn, we mean just half a billion years old.

"While the young star itself is obscured by the dense dust disk that embeds it, the intense winds and fast-moving …

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