2025 September 08 - IRAS 04302: Butterfly Disk Planet Formation

In today's image, we see IRAS 04302 which is a planetary disk in the process of formation. This is a recent image from the James Webb Space Telescope which is helping to give us a better understanding of how star formation works.

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