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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Sequoia for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, July 31 (Xinhua)-- the European Space Agency (ESA) James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) team recently released an image showing that JWST has discovered a huge "cosmic question mark" in deep space.

This image shows two young stars in the process of forming, known as Herbie-Harrow 46ub47, located in the constellation of a ship 1470 light-years from Earth. The two stars are surrounded by a layer of material that has been sending energy to the stars for millions of years to promote their growth. CTOnews.com noticed that below the two stars, in the background of the image, there was an object in the shape of a question mark, as if the universe were asking us questions.

What on earth is this question mark object? It's not clear yet, but its color and shape can give us some clues. "it could be a distant galaxy, or two interacting galaxies that may result in a distorted question mark shape," said a representative of the Baltimore Institute of Space Telescope Science (STScI), which runs JWST science.

According to STScI, if an object appears red in a JWST picture, it is very far away from us. It is worth mentioning that this may be the first time astronomers have seen the cosmic question mark. "this may be the first time we have seen this particular object," STScI added. "more follow-up observations are needed to determine what it is. The Weber Telescope shows us many new, distant galaxies-so there's a lot of new scientific work to do!"

Matt Kaplan, an assistant professor of physics at Illinois State University, said the object could be two galaxies that are merging, and there are many other possibilities, but it won't be a star, because stars produce octagonal spikes scattered outward due to specular reflection, as in the JWST image.

Because of its high-resolution near-infrared imaging capability, JWST can peep into the furthest corners of the universe and discover galaxies 1340 light-years from Earth and only 4.2 billion years after the Big Bang. According to STScI, more than 750 peer-reviewed scientific papers using JWST data have been published in JWST's first year of operation, and the telescope will continue to bring us more amazing findings.

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