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Stellar jet in Sh2-284

Stellar jet in Sh2-284

James Webb Space Telescope

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged an extremely large stellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy in the proto-cluster Sh2-284. This Herbig-Haro (HH) object, jets of plasma shooting out from newly formed stars, is 8 light-years across.

Credit
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Y. Cheng (NAOJ), J. DePasquale (STScI)
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