Jets from Young Stars (HH-47)

Resembling the vertebrae of an imaginary space alien, this one-half light-year long jet of gas has burst out of a dark cloud of gas and dust which hides the newly forming star located in the lower left corner of the image.

Credit:

J. Morse (STScI), and NASA/ESA Co-investigators: B. Reipurth (European Southern Observ.), S. Heathcote (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observ.), P. Hartigan (Rice Univ.), J. Bally (Univ. of Colorado), R. Schwartz (Univ. of Missouri), J. Stone (Univ. of Maryland)

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About the Image

NASA press release

Id:	opo9524i
Type:	Observation
Release date:	6 June 1995, 20:00
Size:	674 x 708 px

About the Object

Name:	HH 47
Type:	Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Jet
Distance:	1400 light years
Constellation:	Vela
Category:	Stars