NASA's James Webb telescope captures star formation in stunning detail
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A new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) reveals a fiery cosmic hourglass encapsulating a protostar within a dark cloud. This protostar—labeled L1527—lying at the central point or the neck of the hourglass, is particularly difficult to spot because it is shrouded by gas and dust. It lies in the Taurus star-forming region which is only visible in infrared light.