Webb’s IC 348 Mosaic Includes Two-Jupiter Dwarfs, Twin Jets, and a Nursery Still Making Worlds

This is One of the Largest Images James Webb Has Ever Captured

Astronomers have found something remarkably small hiding among the young stars of IC 348. The James Webb Space Telescope has identified brown dwarfs with only...

Webb’s IC 348 Mosaic Includes Two-Jupiter Dwarfs, Twin Jets, and a Nursery Still Making Worlds

Photo credit: NASA/Chris Gunn NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has released one of its largest public views yet, a near-infrared mosaic of IC 348, a star-forming region 1,000 light-years away in Perseus. Cold molecular hydrogen in that cloud is still collapsing into new stars, and Webb’s NIRCam turned the scene into a wide, crowded field [...]