Ke Zhang

A human effortlessly picks out the desired voice from the clamor of a party. For a computer, the same task is still at the edge of its abilities. Previous programs trained on sterile recordings, free of echo or the clinking of appliances.

Seventy-two protoplanetary disks, swirling cocoons of cosmic dust and gas, came under the gaze of the MIRI instrument on JWST. Most of them shoot outflows into space: dense conical structures and narrow, high-speed jets. They blast like fountains. This process is not accidental.