James Webb Telescope reveals dynamic panorama of star formation in IC 348
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has released a new image showing star formation and brown dwarfs in the IC 348 region of the constellation Perseus.
New discoveries about brown dwarfs
Astronomers used the telescope to search for objects less massive than the smallest stars. They found brown dwarfs with masses just twice that of Jupiter. This discovery brings the study of these objects into a new mass range.
Details of the star-forming region
The IC 348 region is located approximately 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. Cold clouds of molecular hydrogen gas collapse there to form new stars. The process creates glowing scenes that vary from massive stars to long-lived small ones.
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