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James Webb Space Telescope

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Herbig-Haro (HH) objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars, formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shock waves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds. This image of HH 211 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals an outflow from a Class 0 protostar, an infantile analog of our Sun when it was no more than a few tens of thousands of years old and with a mass only 8% of the present-day Sun (it will eventually grow into a star like the Sun).

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

This is so fucking pretty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious about the use of the term "supersonic" for something moving through the vacuum of space.

Also, wow this is beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The bittersweet beauty of Saṃsāra and creation through destruction. I'm grateful I get to see snapshots of it on galactic scales even if it's somewhat terrifying conceptually.