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https://esawebb.org/images/potm2311a/

[Image Description: In the lower half of the image is a narrow, horizontal nebula that stretches from edge to edge. It is brightly coloured with more variety on its right side. In the upper half there is a glowing point with multi-coloured light radiating from it in all directions. A bright star with long diffraction spikes lies along the right edge, and a few smaller stars are spread around. The background is covered in a thin haze.]

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-telescope-a-prominent-protostar-in-perseus/

Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shockwaves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds.

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[–] knokelmaat 2 points 11 months ago

Amazing image, thank you for this!