Author: Arcturus

Let me show you to it.

the supersonic jet in the star forming Herbig Haro 47. HH 47 is so
close — and the jets are moving so fast — that images from the Hubble
Space Telescope from 1994 to 2008 have been combined into a time-lapse
movie that actually shows a powerful jet expanding. Visible above, jets
of plasma extending over 10,000 times the Earth-Sun distance shoot out
from a forming star at speeds in excess of 150 kilometers per second.
Studying how these jets evolve gives clues not only to how the star in
HH 47 is forming, but how stars like our Sun formed billions of years
ago. HH 47 is located about 1,500 light years away toward the
constellation of Sails of a Ship (Vela)