Fiery protostar
© NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI)
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured this explosive image of the protostar L1527. The glowing orange and blue clouds are created from cosmic dust and gas blasting away from the central protostar. The clouds appear orange at their thickest in this infrared image and blue at their thinnest. The central star is relatively young, cosmically speaking, at only 100,000 years old.