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FS Tau (Webb NIRCam image)
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captures the infrared light from bright protostars in the young star system FS Tau. In addition to myriad background galaxies that burst into view, this image flickers with a number of protostars, or baby stars that are formed from dense pockets of gas and dust. These hot, clumpy, and low-mass objects eventually will become full-fledged stars capable of burning hydrogen in…
- Credit
- ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA
- Telescope
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NIRCam
- Seeing in
- near-infrared
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — credit required
- Published
- Source
- Webb release page
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