NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured a dazzling image of the Serpens Nebula and its protostellar outflows, which are formed when jets of gas spewing from newborn stars collide with nearby gas and dust at high speeds.
Typically protostellar outflows have varied orientations within one region. Here (in the upper left), however, they are slanted in the same direction, to the same degree. The discovery of these aligned objects in this orientation was made possible due to Webb’s exquisite spatial resolution and sensitivity in near-infrared wavelengths, thus providing important information into the fundamentals of how stars are born.
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This area of the Serpens Nebula – Serpens North – only comes into clear view with Webb. We’re now able to catch these extremely young stars and their outflows, some of which previously appeared as just blobs or were completely invisible in optical wavelengths because of the thick dust surrounding them,” said Joel Green, lead author and member of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.
