by yaska77
The image below details two different views of the same baby star; to the left is the visible-light image, the right side is an infrared taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope’s IRAC (InfraRed Array Camera). This new image has shown the star has a second (previously hidden), identical jet shooting off in the opposite direction of the first, which was buried behind a dark cloud.
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Credit: NASA/JPL (Caltech) /A.Raga (ICN_UNAM)/A.Noriega-Crespo (SSC_Caltech)
The Spitzer image shows that both of the twin jets (in a system called Herbig-Haro 34 which is approximately 1,400 light years away, in the constellation Orion), are made up of identical knots of gas and dust ejected one after another from the area around the star. Also just about visible in both views are arc-shaped bow shocks, seen at the ends of the twin jets. The shocks consist of material compressed in front of the jets.
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Filed under: NASA, Night sky, yaska77 Tagged: baby star, Caltech, dust, gas, Herbig-Haro 34, hidden, jet, JPL, NASA, Nebula, Orion, postaweek2011, Spitzer Image may be NSFW.
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