This composite JWST image of the herbig-hao 30 object in the Molecular cloud of Taurus shows many characteristics common to young and massive stars: a dusty disc (seen here), grains of reflective dust above and below the disc, bipolar jets that run perpendicular to the central disc, and the conical exits are shrunk in the ejection similar to the tail. Inside, it is suspected that the planets are forming around the young central star. (Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA and CSA, Mugaki et al.; Processing: E. Siegel)
A young, close and massive star, whose protoplanetary album seems perfectly bordered, has just seen JWST, with amazing implications.
Only 450 light years away, new stars are being born.
This wide field image only encapsulates a portion of the giant molecular cloud of Taurus, which extends for almost 14 degrees through the sky on its longest axis. Only 430–450 light years away, it can be the large region of the Earth of the stars closest to Earth. (Credit: Laurent Lucas/Astobin)
This distant infrared view of the Molecular cloud of Taurus shows the cold dust grains that emit only 10-30 k above the absolute zero. The brightest and most red regions show where the formation of stars is more intense inside. This Fiels of-View covers 13.8 by 7.3 °, capturing the known totality of the molecular cloud complex. (Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Calcech; Recognition: R. Hurt (JPL-Caltech))
Among the dense and massive regions, newborn stars are already thriving.
This image of amateur astronomy of Nebula Dark LDN 1551 shows the cloud of ionized gas within it: Sharpless 239. Many protostars, surrounded by dusty discs, are located inside, along with numerous herbig-hary objects. (Credit: Kk_astro/kaptàs attila)
This image, of Alma, shows the protoplanetary disk around HL Tauri. The gaps within the disc correspond to the locations of the newly formators, and emits airplanes and outputs (not shown) associated with Herbig-Haro 150: part of the same system. (Credit: Alma (ESO/NaOJ/NRAO))
