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It's Like Looking at the Infant Sun: Webb Captures Image of an Energetic Young Star


ver wondered what our young Sun might have looked like in its infancy some five billion years ago? The audacious JWST has captured an image of a very young star much like our young Sun, though the star itself is obscured. Instead, we see supersonic jets of gas.

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