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From : Alan Ianson
Date : Fri Jul 28 2023 01:49:42

                        Astronomy Picture of the Day

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                                2023 July 28

                          Young Stars, Stellar Jets
     Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

   Explanation: High-speed outflows of molecular gas from a pair of
   actively forming young stars shine in infrared light, revealing
   themselves in this NIRcam image from the James Webb Space Telescope.
   Cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 46/47, the young stars are lodged within
   a dark nebula that is largely opaque when viewed in visible light. The
   pair lie at the center of the prominent reddish diffraction spikes in
   the NIRcam image. Their energetic stellar jets extend for nearly a
   light-year, burrowing into the dark interstellar material. A
   tantalizing object to explore with Webb's infrared capabilities, this
   young star system is relatively nearby, located only some 1,140
   light-years distant in the nautical constellation Vela.

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