A question mark in deep space has been spotted inside pictures captured by the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA astronomers had trained their sights on a tightly bound pair of actively-forming stars, known as Herbig-Haro 46/47.

But, some observers focused instead on a tiny, but intriguing, detail in the high-resolution near-infrared light image produced.

Visible in the scene from 1,470 light-years away is a small but distinct question mark shape.

"Is the universe asking us something?" posits an article at Space.com.

The publication reported that representatives of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) suggested it could be a distant galaxy, or interacting galaxies that formed the question mark-shape.

"Herbig-Haro 46/47 is an important object to study because it is relatively young – only a few thousand years old," explained STScI. "Stars take millions of years to fully form."

"Targets like this also give researchers insight into how stars gather mass over time, potentially allowing them to model how our own Sun, a low-mass star, formed."

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