This is what the birth of a sun actually looks like.

James Webb captured this "cosmic hourglass," featuring a protostar only 100,000 years old—a mere blink of an eye in the life of a star.

Hidden in the dark "neck" is an infant star gathering mass from a disk of dust the size of our entire solar system.

We are looking at our own past. This is likely exactly how our Sun looked 4.6 billion years ago. 🌌✨