The Hubble Space Telescope captured a laser-like jet that it said represented a “tantrum” thrown by a small star, according to the specialized space website “space”.
According to the site, the explosion came from a very young star that is just beginning to develop, while the image shows a jet of gas traveling faster than sound. The flare is the result of the jet colliding with gas and dust around the star, ESA officials wrote on Monday; They added, “The result is the brittle colored structures that astronomers refer to as Herbig-Haro objects (bright or hazy patches of gas near newborn stars) rising into the image.”
In this context, the site reported that it is not the first time that Hubble has captured this thing with a camera. While the European Space Agency indicated that the telescope trained its eyes on the area called (HH34) between 1994 and 2007 and with very high accuracy in 2015.
It is worth noting that HH34 is located regarding 1250 light-years from Earth and is found in the famous Orion Nebula; which Hubble has also photographed several times over the decades. Orion is known as a star-birth region, and Hubble has an advantage in looking at nebulae; It is the closest stellar nursery to Earth.
For its part, the European Space Agency added that the new images will be useful for possible future science through the recently launched “James Webb” space telescope, which continues in the commissioning period until regarding June.
“Webb – observing in the predominantly infrared wavelength – will be able to look into the dusty envelopes surrounding protostars that are still forming, revolutionizing the study of the jets from these young stars… High Hubble images will help,” agency officials wrote. Precision for HH34 and other jets, astronomers can interpret future observations using Webb.”
