Young Stars, Stellar Jets
Model: gpt-4.1
Prompt version: 1.0
High-speed outflows of molecular gas from a pair of actively forming young stars shine in infrared astronomy light, revealing themselves in this NIRcam image from the James Webb Space Telescope. Cataloged as HH 46/47, the young stars are lodged within a dark nebula that is largely opaque when viewed in visible light.
The pair lie at the center of the prominent reddish diffraction spikes in the NIRcam image. Their energetic stellar jets extend for nearly a light-year, burrowing into the dark cosmic dust and deep space interstellar material.
A tantalizing object to explore with Webb’s infrared astronomy capabilities, this young star cluster system is relatively nearby, located only some 1,140 light-years distant in the nautical constellation Vela.