Massive newborn star is firing two plasma jets at once

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A newborn star 15,000 light-years from Earth is fascinating astronomers with its dual blasts of superheated plasma jets . The rare sight captured in stunning detail by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) isn't only a display of cosmic forces. It's helping solve a decades' long debate about the origins of massive stellar objects. Located at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy inside a nebula known as Sharpless 2-284 (Sh2-284), the young protostar is already upwards of 10 times the mass of our sun .