Jets from Young Stars
Astronomers glimpse a detailed look at the fitful, eruptive, and dynamic processes accompanying the final stages of a star's "construction." NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images provide a dramatically clear look at collapsing circumstellar disks of dust and gas that build stars and provide the ingredients for a planetary system. The pictures also show blowtorch-like jets of hot gas funneled from deep within several embryonic systems and machine gun-like bursts of material fired from the stars at speeds of a half-million mph. The Hubble observations shed new light on one of modern astronomy's central questions: How do tenuous clouds of interstellar gas and dust make stars like our Sun.
Credit:
Credit: J. Hester (Arizona State University), the WFPC 2 Investigation Definition Team, and NASA
About the Image
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9524f |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 6 June 1995, 20:00 |
| Size: | 1598 x 1598 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Jets |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object • Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Jet |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
