Stellar Jets
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…
1 year 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…
2 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…
2 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