'It's like taking the X-ray of a human.'
"The most interesting thing about this image is that it's actually showing us star formation in progress," Anton Koekemoer, a research astronomer at STScI, told Space.com.
"I just thought 'Wow'," Ward-Thompson told Space.com."It really made me understand how the James Webb Space Telescope is going to be so much better than Hubble, which can only see the outside. It also provides a much better detail, much higher resolution." The red dots visible in Webb's images are protostars, cocoons of dust and gas so dense that they are collapsing together under the weight of their own. As the clouds collapse, they form rotating balls, which will eventually become so dense that the hydrogen atoms in their cores will begin to fuse together in the process of nuclear fusion, which makes stars shine.
In some of the larger bright red patches in the image, several stars are bursting out at once. Elsewhere, their heat has not yet broken through the surrounding dust. "You can resolve things that are about the size of our solar system in the image," Koekemoer said."If there were individual planets like Jupiter, you wouldn't be able to resolve those."
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