The James Webb Space Telescope is helping to bring clarity to star formation process—literally. ✨ Dense clouds of gas and dust tend to envelop regions where forming and young stars reside. Before Webb was in operation, astronomers were limited in the amount of detail they could gather about the star formation process. This included not being able to define the lower threshold, the least amount of mass an object can have while still forming like a star. Scientists have been able to roughly determ

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HOW HERSCHEL UNLOCKED THE SECRETS OF STAR FORMATION Nov. 30, 2017 "We are made of star stuff," the astronomer Carl Sagan famously said, as the atoms that make us – our bodies, our homes, our planet – come largely from previous generations of stars. Surveying the sky for almost four years to observe the glow of cold cosmic dust embedded in interstellar clouds of gas, the Herschel Space Observatory has provided astronomers with an unprecedented glimpse into the stellar cradles of our Galaxy. As a