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🦎 + ☁️ = ? This image taken by NASA Hubble shows a segment of the 65-light-year wide star-forming region called the Chamaeleon Cloud Complex. The segment in this Hubble composite image, called Chamaeleon Cloud I, reveals dusty-dark clouds where stars are forming, dazzling reflection nebulae glowing by the light of bright-blue young stars, and radiant knots called Herbig-Haro objects. Herbig-Haro objects are bright clumps and arcs of interstellar gas, energized by jets expelled from infant stars (also called protostars) in the process of forming. The white-orange cloud at the bottom of the image shows one of these protostars. White jets of hot gas ejected from the protostar’s poles create a Herbig-Haro object.