NASA releases 'baby picture' of a star that will grow up to be much like our sun

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A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals what Earth's sun could have looked like in its infancy.

Located about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, HH21 has only about 8% of the Sun's mass.

A Class 0 protostar, meaning the nascent star is less than 100,000 years old,"eventually will grow into a star like the Sun,"The stunning, high-resolution image, with shades of blue and pink erupting from a dark center, shows the luminous region surrounding the newborn star, known as a Herbig-Haro object. As the new star ejects gas jets, these winds collide with neighboring gas and dust, producing the colorful outflow we see in the image.

 

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