James Webb Space Telescope Makes a Jaw-Dropping Discovery That Leaves Astronomers Seeing Double | Space & Technology

A team of astronomers say they have made a jaw-dropping new discovery with help from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

According to new findings by Webb, NASA’s premiere space science observatory, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a distant celestial object once believed to represent a single star is actually a twin system.

The discovery reveals that that WL 20S possesses gas and dust disks encircling each of the stars in the newly recognized twin system, features that point to the likelihood of ongoing planet formation that could potentially offer new clues into stellar life cycles.

The recent discoveries were made possible by Webb’s powerful Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), and were presented at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society, where astronomers revealed that the twin stars also possess matching jets…