00:00ever wondered what the birth of a star looks like well wonder no more this is a recent image from
00:08the james webb space telescope showing protostar l1527 one that only popped into existence around
00:15100 000 years ago that might not seem too new but stars tend to live for a really really long time
00:21like 50 million to 20 billion years and because of how young this one is it is still hanging out in
00:27the molecular cloud from which it was born l1527 is not a main sequence star meaning it is not the
00:33product of an ongoing fusion reaction rather its energy is derived from heated and compressed
00:38material and actually creates a strong magnetic field that field pushes material out in massive
00:43jets at its poles ejecting matter far out into space and that's what you're seeing here with the hour
00:48glass figure a result of this magnetic push out into the cosmos the james webb telescope was built
00:54for this type of observation as astronomers are still unsure about how and why star fusion reactions
00:59begin one of many questions that will hopefully eventually be answered by nasa's flagship space
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