We found “buried treasure,” and the Cosmic Cliffs mark the spot. 🏴‍☠️⁣ ⁣ You might remember this view, taken in the Carina Nebula, as part of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images released. NASAWebb scientists did a deep dive into the data, revealing a hotbed of young stars in an elusive stage of development. This discovery may help us investigate how stars like our Sun form, as well as how radiation from nearby massive stars might affect the development of planets.⁣ ⁣ Stars at this early stage of development are hidden inside clouds of dust and gas, and are only visible in infrared light and with high resolution instruments. These young stars interact with their environments by taking in material and then ejecting it. The ejections, in the form of jets and outflows of matter, heat the surrounding hydrogen gas (H2, or molecular hydrogen) and cause it to emit light. More at the link in NASAWebb’s bio!⁣ ⁣ Credits: NASA, EuropeanSpaceAgency, CSA, STScI, Megan Reiter (Rice Univers...