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A new image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals what Earth's sun could have looked like in its infancy.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of a newborn star that reveals what Earth's sun may have looked like when it was only a few tens of thousands of years old.The James Webb Space Telescope captured an image of a newborn star that reveals what Earth's sun may have looked like when it was only a few tens of thousands of years old.

The image of Herbig-Haro 211 , released by NASA on Sept. 14, shows the outflow of a young star."An infantile analogue of our Sun," NASA said in aLocated about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, HH21 has only about 8% of the Sun's mass.

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