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                                2023 July 28
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                          Young Stars, Stellar Jets
    Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]ESA, [5]CSA, Processing: Joseph DePasquale
                                 ([6]STScI)

   Explanation: High-speed outflows of molecular gas from a pair of
   actively forming young stars shine in infrared light, revealing
   themselves in [7]this NIRcam image from the James Webb Space Telescope.
   Cataloged as HH (Herbig-Haro) 46/47, the young stars are [8]lodged
   within a dark nebula that is largely opaque when viewed in visible
   light. The pair lie at the center of the prominent reddish
   [9]diffraction spikes in the NIRcam image. Their [10]energetic stellar
   jets extend for nearly a light-year, [11]burrowing into the dark
   interstellar material. A tantalizing object to explore with Webb's
   infrared capabilities, this [12]young star system is relatively nearby,
   located only some 1,140 light-years distant in the nautical
   [13]constellation Vela.

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   9. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01G529MX46J7AFK61GAMSHKSSN
  10. https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2018/53/4266-Image?Tag=Stellar Jets
  11. https://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image/ssc2003-06f-embedded-outflow-in-hh-46-47
  12. http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304258
  13. http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/vel/index.html
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