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class="content__text" Gaze into these bright outflows! The young star system that has created these cloud-like objects, known as HH 1 and HH 2 (upper right and bottom left respectively), is hidden by the thick clouds of dust in the center of this multiwavelength image. HH—or Herbig-Haro—objects are glowing clumps found around some newborn stars, and are created when jets of gas thrown outward from these young stars collide with surrounding gas and dust at incredibly high speeds. In 2002, Hubble observations revealed that parts of HH 1 are moving at more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) per second! The bright star between the bright jet and the HH 1 cloud was once thought to be the source of these jets, but it is now known to be an unrelated double star that formed nearby. This Hubble Space Telescope image was made with infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. #Hubble #stars #HerbigHaro #infrared #ultraviolet Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Reipurth, B. Nisini. ALT TEXT: Two wispy, gaseous clouds occupy the corners of this image, HH 1 in the upper right, and HH 2 in the lower left. Both are light blue and surrounded by dimmer multi-colored clouds, while the background is dark black due to dense gas. A very bright orange star lies just to the lower left of HH 1, and beyond that star is a narrow jet, emerging from the dark center of the field.

February 05, 2023