That Hubble Space Telescope He catches a laser -like jet that represents the “rage” thrown by the baby star.
The explosion came from a very young star that was just beginning its evolution, and the image shows a jet of gas moving faster than sound. The light you see in the image comes from the craft colliding with gas and dust around the star, according to officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) Written in the description of the picture Monday (7 March).
“The result is a brittle colored structure, which astronomers refer to as a Herbig-Haro object, billowing in the lower left of this image,” the officials added. (The Herbig-Haro object is a bright patch of gas, or hazy, near a newborn star.)
This isn’t the first time Hubble has caught this object on camera. The endoscope directs his eyes to an area called HH34, Between 1994 and 2007 With very high accuracy in 2015said the European Space Agency.
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HH34 is located about 1250 light years from Earth and is in a famous place Nebula Orion, which was also photographed by Hubble several times over the decades. Orion is known as the birthplace of stars, and Hubble has the advantage of seeing nebulae; It is the closest stellar nursery to Earth.
The European Space Agency added that the new images will be useful for future science possibilities with their recent launch James Webb Space Telescopewhich is in the commissioning period until around June.
The ESA official wrote: “Webb – who will observe in the dominant infrared wavelength – will be able to see into the dusty shroud surrounding the still-forming protostar, revolutionizing the study of the emission of these young stars.” “Hubble’s high-resolution images of HH34 and other probes will help astronomers interpret future observations using Webb.”
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