<ul><li>NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning image of a 'cosmic tornado' known as Herbig-Haro 49/50 in the constellation Chamaeleon.</li><li>Herbig-Haro objects are formed when ionized gas jets from newborn stars collide with surrounding interstellar material, creating bright and nebula-like structures.</li><li>Herbig-Haro 49/50 was first discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in 2006 and is located in the Chamaeleon I Cloud complex, about 625 light-years from Earth.</li><li>The JWST image also revealed that a fuzzy object at the top of the gas pillar is actually a distant spiral galaxy in the background, not a part of Herbig-Haro 49/50.</li></ul>

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