A cosmic lightsabre
The two lightsabre-like streams crossing the image are jets of energised gas, ejected from the poles of a young star. If the jets collide with the surrounding gas and dust they can clear vast spaces, and create curved shock waves, seen as knotted clumps called Herbig-Haro objects.
Credit:ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo), and B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii)
About the Image
Id: | heic1526a |
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Type: | Observation |
Release date: | 17 December 2015, 16:00 |
Related releases: | heic1526 |
Size: | 1028 x 1218 px |
About the Object
Name: | HH 24 |
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Type: | Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object |
Distance: | 1500 light years |
Constellation: | Orion |
Category: | Stars |
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Coordinates
Position (RA): | 5 46 9.14 |
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Position (Dec): | 0° 10' 7.77" |
Field of view: | 1.72 x 2.04 arcminutes |
Orientation: | North is 10.3° left of vertical |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Infrared I | 801 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Infrared Pseudo (814W+Fe II) | Hubble Space Telescope | |
Infrared Fe II | 1.64 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |
Infrared H | 1.537 μm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFC3 |