Keith’s note: @markmccaughrean just tweeted this image: “Hello darkness, my old friend” – A tiny snippet from our new #JWST data, showing a planetary system in the making, floating in space & silhouetted against the bright background light of the Orion Nebula.” One would hope that NASA PAO takes notice. WOW.
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Are Beta Pictoris’s dust disks (first discovered in 1984…the first other solar system discovered and imaged I believe) considered a solar system in formation?
I remember NASA making note of that discovery back then, before the Hubble hype had ramped up.