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Jess Thomson

James Webb telescope reveals 'cosmic tornado' in best detail ever — and finds part of it is not what it seems

An image of a tornado-shaped glowing orange cloud in outer space with many bright twinkling stars.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has snapped a spectacular image of a "cosmic tornado" being burped out from a baby star.

The image reveals an outflow of hot gas from a newborn star — known as a Herbig-Haro object — situated about 625 light-years from Earth in the constellation Chamaeleon.

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