A baby star's violent first cry! The drama of the birth of "FS Tauri" captured by the Webb Telescope

Explanation

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope observed "FS Tauri," a newly formed young star system in the direction of the constellation Taurus. Immediately after a star is born, it grows while violently drawing in surrounding gas and dust, while also ejecting excess gas at high speed toward its two poles in what is called an "outflow." When this gas collides with the surrounding gas, it creates brightly glowing structures called "Herbig-Haro objects." This observation captured in detail the dynamic phenomena accompanying the birth of such a young star, providing clues to how stars like the Sun are born.