Webb Space Telescope shows how a star is born in great cosmic nursery https://ift.tt/8HKwPiA

Now, the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble's successor, has turned its infrared eyes to see through those same columns and inspect the newborns still in their dusty cribs. In the new view of the Pillars released on Wednesday, cherry-red streaks and waves are jets of material squeezed from globs of gas and dust - baby protostars - as they collapsed and heated up toward stardom.