'The stars, they aligned': For the first time ever, NASA captures image of jets of gas from newborn stars
NASA's James Webb Telescope captured an incredible sight: jets of gas from newborn stars. This stunning image truly captures the magic of the cosmos, almost as if the stars themselves aligned for something special. NASA nailed it with their perfect caption shared along with the image on social media, "The stars, they aligned."
NASA's James Webb Telescope recently captured jets of gas from newborn stars for the first time.?
The image shared by NASA shows bright red, clumpy streaks in the top left, all slanted in the same direction.
"Astronomers have long assumed that as clouds collapse to form stars, the stars will tend to spin in the same direction," said principal investigator Klaus Pontoppidan of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.?
"However, this has not been seen so directly before. These aligned, elongated structures are a historical record of the fundamental way that stars are born."
Previously, these objects appeared as blobs or were invisible in optical wavelengths. Webb¡¯s sensitive infrared vision pierced through the thick dust, revealing the stars and their outflows.
The area captured in the image is part of the Serpens Nebula. Located 1,300 light-years from Earth, it¡¯s only 1-2 million years old ¡ª very young in cosmic terms! It's home to a dense cluster of newly forming stars, about 100,000 years old, seen at the center of this image.
Interestingly, people noticed an Ariana Grande connection, as the phrase ¡°The stars, they aligned¡± is from one of her popular songs "The Boy Is Mine."?
Fans commented, "NASA is the biggest Ariana stan!!" and "NASA in her Arianators era." Ariana herself even commented on the post with stars.
Fangirling aside, the picture is truly breathtaking, and as one comment rightly said, "This kind of unmatched beauty is only found in space."
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