You can thank your lucky stars and a special camera on NASA's Webb Space Telescope for this amazing picture.
The viral photograph was authentic, though it was a zoomed-in version of a larger image by NASA's Webb Space Telescope.Documenting a pair of forming stars , the image wason the telescope's official website on July 26, 2023. The discovery was titled"Herbig-Haro 46/47." The image's description stated:
Herbig-Haro 46/47 is an important object to study because it is relatively young – only a few thousand years old. Stars take millions of years to fully form. Targets like this also give researchers insight into how stars gather mass over time, potentially allowing them to model how our own Sun, a low-mass star, formed.webbtelescope.org[...] A profusion of extremely distant galaxies dot Webb's view.
As of this writing, it was unknown what the"question mark" formation was — though scientists speculated it was one or more galaxies."It is probably a distant galaxy, or potentially interacting galaxies ," representatives of the Space Telescope Science Institute , which manages the telescope's science operations,
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