The James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) captured a vibrant image of the protostar inside the nebula L1527, located 460 light-years away in Taurus. Released on Independence Day, the image shows a 100,000-year-old star in an hourglass-shaped gas cloud, consuming material and expelling it in jets. NASA describes this as a young star forming in a protoplanetary disk. Stars evolve over millions of years, emitting material through stellar feedback as they develop from dust clouds to fusion-powered plasma orbs.