The Jace Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful ejection of material from the poles of HH 211, a young star about 1,000 light-years from Earth that resembles our Sun. In this respect reported At the European Space Agency (ESA).
The image shows multicolored jets called “stellar wind” exploding from a newborn star.
These outbursts, also known as Herbing-Haro objects, are bright regions typical of young stars. They form when a stream of stellar material collides with nearby gas and dust.
Astronomers have measured the speed of matter flows within their internal structures and estimated it to be in the range of 80 to 100 kilometers per second.
James Webb was able to image this phenomenon in unprecedented detail thanks to the infrared glow of hydrogen molecules as well as carbon and silicon oxides.
The researchers concluded that the streams from the youngest stars, such as HH 211, consist mostly of molecules because the relatively low speed of the shock waves cannot break the matter into atoms and ions.
Formerly the James Webb Space Telescope caught the oldest threads of the cosmic web.