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JWST Pierces Through a Thick Nebula to Reveal Newly Forming Binary Stars


In 1985, the physicist Heinz Pagels wrote that star birth was a "veiled and secret event." That's because the stellar crĂȘches hide the action. But, ever since the advent of infrared astronomy, astronomers have been able to lift that veil.

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