HH 666: Carina Dust Pillar with Jet
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To some, it may look like a beehive. In reality, the featured image from the Hubble Image captures a cosmic pillar of Dust, over two-light years long, inside of which is Herbig-Haro 666 — a young Star emitting powerful jets.
The structure lies within one of our galaxy’s largest Star Forming Regions, the Carina Nebula, shining in southern skies at a distance of about 7,500 light-years.
The pillar’s layered outline are shaped by the winds and radiation of Carina’s young, hot, massive stars, some of which are still forming inside the Nebula.
A dust-penetrating view in Infrared Astronomy better shows the two, narrow, energetic jets blasting outward from a still hidden infant star.
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