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Bright Jets Blast Out from a Newborn Star
A young star (upper left) is seen firing jets of material out into space. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA. Acknowledgement: Gilles Chapdelaine
Like very young humans, very young stars also tend to make a big mess out of the stuff around them — except in the case of stars it’s not crayon on the walls and Legos on the floor (ouch!) but rather huge blasts of superheated material that are launched from their poles far out into space.
The image above, acquired by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows one of these young stars caught in the act.
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© Jason Major for Universe Today, 2013. |
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Post tags: Herbig-Haro, jets, LDN 1551, Molecular Cloud, nebula, plasma, shock, stars, Taurus
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2013-02-22 16:17:14
Source: http://www.universetoday.com/100205/bright-jets-blast-out-from-a-newborn-star/
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