Al-Anbat - Mohammad Allahham
The US Space Agency (NASA) and the European Space Agency
announced, in a joint statement, that the James Webb space telescope captured
new and amazing images of a huge hourglass-shaped cloud of dust around a star
in the process of formation.
According to the Washington Post and the NASA website, these
previously unseen orange and blue clouds were spotted by the telescope's
"Nircam" instrument, which operates in near infrared that is not
visible to the human eye.
The first star, called "Protostar L1527”, is located in the
constellation Taurus and is obscured by the tip of a rotating disk of gas at
the neck of the hourglass.
According to the statement, the cost of the "James
Webb" telescope, which revealed the first color images, amounted to 10
billion dollars.
