New Webb image is like a baby portrait of the Sun.
“NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. Herbig-Haro objects are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from newborn stars form shock waves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds.” | Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray
Herbig-Haro objects are “luminous regions surrounding newborn stars, formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shock waves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds,”Herbig-Haro 211 is located about 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The Class 0 protostar in the center will one day grow into a star like the Sun.
“Molecules excited by the turbulent conditions, including molecular hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and silicon monoxide, emit infrared light that Webb can collect to map out the structure of the outflows,” says NASA. HH 211 has been imaged before, but Webb’s incredible resolution offers an unprecedented look at the object. NASA says the new JWST image delivers five to 10 times higher spatial resolution than any prior images of HH 211.
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