"James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Stunning View of Cosmic Birth"

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797), a luminous region surrounding a newborn star in the Perseus dark cloud complex. The image reveals intricate details of the protostar and its outflows, which are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas collide with nearby gas and dust. The image was captured using Webb's Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), which is particularly effective in studying newborn stars and their outflows. The image shows that what was previously thought to be one outflow is actually two parallel outflows, each produced by a separate star.