Herbig-Haro Jet HH 24 | Milky Way Wall Art Size:COSMIC (32 x 48) 26 with Hubble's Wide Field

26 with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2

2-metre image

Shock fronts develop along the jets and heat the surrounding gas to thousands of degrees Fahrenheit

In the Bayer system of stellar nomenclature

and subsequently identified in Viking Orbiter images taken more than 20 years before

Herbig-Haro Jet HH 24 | Milky Way Wall Art Size:COSMIC (32 x 48) 26 with Hubble's Wide FieldLying inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, this HerbigHaro object is a turbulent birthing ground for new stars in a region known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light years away. HerbigHaro (HH) objects are bright patches of nebulosity associated with newborn stars that form when narrow jets of partially ionized gas ejected by stars collide with nearby clouds of gas and dust. This image of Herbig Haro Jet HH 24 was taken by the