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Stunning James Webb Space Telescope image shows young star blasting supersonic jets

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NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope captures jets of star matter blasting from poles of a young star.

The jets live in an energetic pocket of space located about 1,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Perseus.

The protostar is actively sucking in surrounding gas and dust to grow larger, but shedding material into space in what astronomers call a bipolar outflow.