Space - HH 211: supersonic jets from an infant solar twin
Space · 0:35
Roughly 1,000 light-years away in Perseus, Herbig-Haro 211 is a supersonic bipolar jet shooting from an infant protostar. The central star is an analogue of our Sun at just a few tens of thousands of years old, possessing only eight percent of the Sun's current mass. Webb's infrared imaging penetrated the dense natal cloud, revealing symmetrical wiggles in the jet that suggest an unresolved binary star system powering bow shocks on either side.
Source: ESA/Webb
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