Post #30

Celestial lightsaber? 👀 Not quite. This is a Herbig-Haro object, which forms when a newborn star shoots twin jets out into space – sort of like a birth announcement to the universe! Called HH24, this object is located inside a turbulent starbirth region known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light-years away. Visualization credits: NASA, ESA, G. Bacon, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz3D Team, STScI); Acknowledgment: A. Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), Palomar/Caltech, UKSTU/AAO, T. Rector (U Alaska Anchorage), H. Schweiker (WIYN), NOAO/AURA/NSF, Gemini Observatory, C. Aspin, the Hubble Heritage/Hubble-Europe Collaboration, D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (U Toledo), and B. Reipurth (U Hawaii) Music credit: “Beyond Limits,” Stefan Merz [GEMA], Ed.Berlin Production Music / Universal Production Music GmbH [GEMA]