Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA - Processing: Judy Schmidt
Explanation: If you visit HH 24, don't go near the particle beam jet.
This potential future travel advisory might be issued because the powerful jet
likely contains electrons and protons moving hundreds of
kilometers per second. The above image was
taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in infrared light in order to
better
understand turbulent star forming regions known as Young
Stellar Objects (YSOs). Frequently when a star forms, a disk of dust and gas
circles the YSO causing a powerful central jets to
appear. In this case, the energetic jets are
creating, at each end, Herbig-Haro object 24
(HH 24), as they slam into the surrounding interstellar gas. The entire star
forming region lies about 1,500 light years
distant in the Orion
B molecular cloud complex. Due to their rarity, jets like that
forming HH 24 are estimated to last only a few thousand years.
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