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Harry Baker

James Webb telescope reveals long-studied baby star is actually 'twins' — and they're throwing identical tantrums

A split image of the location of the stars in space (left) and an artist's interpretation of the new stars (right).

A distant star first spotted decades ago is actually a pair of baby stars that are each spewing powerful energy jets parallel to one another, scientists have discovered. 

The unlikely twins were finally identified thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which peered through a dense cloud of cosmic dust to spy the adjacent jets shooting out of the juvenile stars, researchers said. 

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