James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:
This side-by-side image compares NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes’ observations of star system FS Tau. Hubble’s observation provides a clear view of protostar FS Tau B, its dusty protoplanetary disk, and an astrophysical jet, assigned the color cyan in this image. However, the visible light from background stars and galaxies is extinguished by thick clouds of dust in the region.
In infrared light, Webb can see through the dust to reveal the scene in greater detail, including FS Tau A, a pair of protostars that creates the largest diffraction pattern slightly to the left of center, and FS Tau B, the protostar slightly right of center. The reddish-orange outflows are most likely being emitted by FS Tau B. The star’s jets are responsible for compressing some of the nearby dust, creating ridges seen here as light blue. Webb also reveals a tapestry of background galaxies, which vary in color depending on the amount of dust in the foreground.
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Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
Image description: Side-by-side images of FS Tau, a star-forming nebula. The left, labeled Webb, shows clouds of transparent blue and purple gas and dust extending from the center to the right. Several yellow and white protostars, some showing Webb’s eight-pronged diffraction pattern, are within the clouds. Orange wisps of gas extend from one of the protostars at the center toward the top left and bottom right corners. The right, labeled Hubble, shows a bright white point made up of two orbiting stars with a four-pronged diffraction pattern to the right of center. At 2 o’clock from this star, there is another, smaller protostar, surrounded by a dark disk of matter. In the center of the image is a cavity where the clouds are thinner and background stars shine through. The stars and protostar are on the edges of this cavity and are surrounded by dark clouds that appear like thick smoke in the light. A thin, short blue jet of material extends horizontally, emerging from both sides of the disk.
