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Herbig-Haro 24 taken on October 13 in 2009

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Herbig-Haro 24 via /r/spaceporn http://bit.ly/2X7bFik

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Herbig-Haro 24

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Dual Particle Beams in Herbig-Haro 24

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Herbig-Haro 24

Herbig-Haro 24 is an object located about 1,350 light years away in the Orion B Molecular Cloud Complex. Herbig-Haro objects are the result of shock fronts as superheated material from newborn stars collides with cooler surrounding material. This image is about a half light year across.

As stars form, surrounding material collapses into a flat, cool, rotating accretion disk. The protostar at the center pulls material from this disk as it grows, emitting jets of superheated material along its rotation axis- the path of least resistance. The superheated material creates shock fronts, heating surrounding gas to thousands of degrees Fahrenheit and clearing cavities in the clouds. The shock fronts clump and tangle, forming intricate shapes called Herbig-Haro objects.

Image from NASA, information from HubbleSite.

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Herbig-Haro 24 taken on February 18 in 2014

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NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 2015 December 18 

Herbig-Haro 24 

This might look like a double-bladed lightsaber, but these two cosmic jets actually beam outward from a newborn star in a galaxy near you. Constructed from Hubble Space Telescope image data, the stunning scene spans about half a light-year across Herbig-Haro 24 (HH 24), some 1,300 light-years or 400 parsecs away in the stellar nurseries of the Orion B molecular cloud complex. Hidden from direct view, HH 24's central protostar is surrounded by cold dust and gas flattened into a rotating accretion disk. As material from the disk falls toward the young stellar object it heats up. Opposing jets are blasted out along the system's rotation axis. Cutting through the region's interstellar matter, the narrow, energetic jets produce a series of glowing shock fronts along their path.

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