Shrouded in a dense cloud of gas and dust, a young star in the constellation Ophiuchus that astronomers have studied for decades turns out to be a duo. It also appears that both members of the pair are surrounded by a disk of material within which planets have just begun to merge. The twin stars, … Read more
Astronomers have had a big surprise with the discovery that a star known as WL 20S, which has been studied extensively since the 1970s, is actually not one but a pair of stars. The discovery of the surprising twin was made with the James Webb Space Telescope during a survey of a group of young … Read more
Webb’s mid-infrared instrument, which was managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory until launch, also revealed jets of gas streaming into space from the twin stars. Scientists recently got a big surprise from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope when they pointed the observatory at a group of young stars called WL 20. The region has been … Read more