Webb’s IC 348 Mosaic Includes Two-Jupiter Dwarfs, Twin Jets, and a Nursery Still Making Worlds

This is One of the Largest Images James Webb Has Ever Captured

Astronomers have found something remarkably small hiding among the young stars of IC 348. The James Webb Space Telescope has identified brown dwarfs with only...

Webb’s IC 348 Mosaic Includes Two-Jupiter Dwarfs, Twin Jets, and a Nursery Still Making Worlds

Photo credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released one of its largest public views yet, a near-infrared mosaic of IC 348, a star-forming region 1,000 light-years away in Perseus. Cold molecular hydrogen in that cloud is still collapsing into new stars, and Webb’s NIRCam turned the scene into a wide, crowded field [...]

Close-up: Star-forming Region IC 348 in Perseus | James Webb Space Telescope

Close-up: Star-forming Region IC 348 in Perseus | James Webb Space TelescopeImage Description: A star-forming region. It is blanketed in thick clouds of gas and dust, millions of kilometers across, that form swirling patterns. Bright stars are scattered throughout the clouds with the densest cluster situated in the center of the scene. Each is crowned with six long points created by the optics of the telescope’s mirrors. In the upper right, a co…