In today's image, we see an image from the James Webb Space Telescope looking at the dark nebula L1527. Within the central dust disk between the two lobes is a protostar that is in the process of formation. It will become a star when the core temperature reaches the ten million degrees needed to be able to fuse hydrogen into helium.

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