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Unprecedented Webb image shows newborn star's outflow moving at supersonic speeds (www.cbsnews.com)

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An otherworldly image captured by the powerful James Webb Space Telescope shows the outflows surrounding a fast-moving newborn star that will someday grow into a cosmic body like the sun.

The image shows the star and the Herbig-Haro objects surrounding it.

Herbig-Haro objects are "luminous regions" that appear around newborn stars and are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas form shock waves that collide with nearby gas and dust particles at high speed, NASA said in a news release Thursday.

The photo is "roughly 5 to 10 times higher spatial resolution" than any previous image of the star and the objects, NASA said.

However, the shocks are moving "relatively slow in comparison to more evolved" types of the same star.

Molecules within the star and outflows emit infrared light, which Webb can use to map a structure.

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