In order to improve and expand this understanding, Berne and colleagues have been granted further time on JWST to build a catalog of similar protoplanetary disks in the Orion Nebula. Astronomers ...

The bodies that didn’t melt are a type of meteorite known as chondrites - sedimentary rocks that formed in the early solar nebula. Because they didn't melt, they’re pristine samples of the original ...

This nebula, located 160,000 light-years away ... The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an extraordinary image of HH 30, a protoplanetary disk in the Taurus constellation.

Webb's target was a protoplanetary disk of dense gas and ... while another surrounding it is a cone-shaped outflow shrouded by a wide nebula reflecting the light of the new star embedded within ...