Baby Stars Growing at the Edge of the Galaxy – Here’s What They Look Like
Occasionally, we consider Earth as a tiny planet orbiting a moderate-sized star, situated on the fringes of the grand galaxy. In essence, we reside in the suburbs rather than the central business district or the truly isolated outskirts. Lately, astronomers have directed the James Webb Space Telescope towards an area called the Extreme Outer Galaxy (EOG) – a region that space explorer John Crichton from ‘Farscape’ might recognize as the Uncharted Territories – to explore how stars develop in the rural areas of the galaxy.