This image shows two baby stars spewing out almost parallel jets of gas. Astronomers used to think it was just one star, but Webb's high-resolution image shows more of the story. The "string" here is Herbig-Haro (HH) 797. A Herbig-Haro object is a bright region surrounding newborn stars, formed when the stars' outflows collide at high speeds with nearby gas and dust.

In the upper half of the image, these bright objects are thought to actually contain two more baby stars. James Webb's infrared vision is particularly suitable for studying young stars and their outflows, because infrared light can pierce through obscuring gas and dust.

Image description:

In the lower half of the image is a narrow, horizontal nebula stretching from one end to the other. It is brightly coloured, mostly in shades of red and pink, but with some green and yellow tones on the right side. In the upper half of the image, there is a spot glowing with multicoloured (yellow, green and pinkish red) light radiating in all directions. A bright star with a partially visible long diffraction spike extends along the right edge. Several small stars are scattered around. The background is dark blue with a thin haze.