Stellar Jets

The JWST Peers into the Heart of Star Formation

The James Webb Space Telescope has unlocked another achievement. This time, the dynamic telescope has peered into the heart of…

6 months ago

This Star is Blasting Out a Concentrated Jet of Material at 500 km/s

MWC 349A is a star about 3,900 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. It's huge, about 38 times as massive…

2 years ago

Latest Hubble Image Shows the Star-Forming Chamaeleon Cloud

Stars form inside vast collections of molecular hydrogen called molecular clouds, sometimes called stellar nurseries or star forming regions. Instabilities…

3 years ago

Incredible Image Shows Twin Stellar Jets Blasting Out of a Star-Forming Region

Young stars go through a lot as they're being born. They sometimes emit jets of ionized gas called MHOs—Molecular Hydrogen…

3 years ago

Endings and Beginnings – Magnetic Jets Shape Stellar Transformation

The incredible visual appearance of planetary nebulae are some of the most studied and observed of deep space objects. However,…

11 years ago

Hubble Movies “Star” Supersonic Jets

[/caption]Don't you know that you are a shooting star... Thanks to the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, an international team of…

13 years ago