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                                   2024 June 27   
      
                         Protostellar Outflows in Serpens   
      Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (NASA-JPL), Joel   
                                   Green (STScI)   
      
      Explanation: Jets of material blasting from newborn stars, are captured   
      in this James Webb Space Telescope close-up of the Serpens Nebula. The   
      powerful protostellar outflows are bipolar, twin jets spewing in   
      opposite directions. Their directions are perpendicular to accretion   
      disks formed around the spinning, collapsing stellar infants. In the   
      NIRcam image, the reddish color represents emission from molecular   
      hydrogen and carbon monoxide produced as the jets collide with the   
      surrounding gas and dust. The sharp image shows for the first time that   
      individual outflows detected in the Serpens Nebula are generally   
      aligned along the same direction. That result was expected, but has   
      only now come into clear view with Webb's detailed exploration of the   
      active young star-forming region. Brighter foreground stars exhibit   
      Webb's characteristic diffraction spikes. At the Serpens Nebula's   
      estimated distance of 1,300 light-years, this cosmic close-up frame is   
      about 1 light-year across.   
      
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