Everything is not as it seems đȘ
See that string along the bottom of this image? Itâs made up of 2 baby stars spewing out almost parallel jets of gas. Astronomers used to think there was just one star, but Webbâs high-resolution view shows more to the story.
The âstringâ here is Herbig-Haro (HH) 797. A Herbig-Haro object is the bright region that surrounds newborn stars, formed when the starsâ outflows collide with nearby gas and dust at high speeds.
In the top half of the image, those bright objects are actually thought to contain two further baby stars! Webbâs infrared vision is particularly suited for studying young stars and their outflows, as infrared light can pierce through obscuring gas and dust.
Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, T. Ray (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
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