The Hubble Space Telescope has just captured another stunning image to add to its impressive collection.

The space telescope was filmed from the birth of a star.

And we're not talking about crisp Brad Cooper next to Lady Gaga either. It is a real star that sends what NASA calls "brilliant objects Herbig-Haro", while hot gas jets collide with the frozen matter that circulates in the vacuum of space.


(Photo: ESA / Hubble / NASA) In this image, NASA / ESA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the smoking gun of a nascent star, Herbig objects ??? Haro numbered from 7 to 11 (HH 7 ??? 11). These five objects, visible in blue at the top center of the image, are in NGC 1333, a reflection nebula full of gas and dust found about a thousand light-years from Earth. Herbig-Haro objects such as HH 7-11 are transient phenomena. By moving away from the star that created them, at a speed of up to 250,000 kilometers at the hour, they disappear into nothingness in a few tens of thousands of years. The young star at the origin of HH 7-11 calls SVS 13 and the five objects move away from SVS 13 towards the upper left corner. The current distance between HH 7 and SVS 13 is about 20,000 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Hero "Haro" objects are formed when jets of ionized gas ejected by a young star collide with nearby clouds of gas and dust at high speeds. The Herbig-Haro objects visible on this image are no exception to the rule and formed when the throws of the SVS 13, the newborn star, collided with the surrounding clouds. These collisions created the five bright light blocks in the reflection nebula.
Not a bad Hubble, not bad (ESA / Hubble)

NASA has posted the picture on its Instagram page and has amassed nearly 700,000 "I like it".

"In this image, these five objects are visible at the top center, in the form of bright blue streaks away from the star that created them at 150,000 miles at the time, up to left, "explained the space agency.

"Since the launch and deployment of Hubble in April 1990, our vision of the universe and our place in it has never been the same."


UNSPECIFIED - OCTOBER 03: The Hubble Space Telescope, Space (NASA Photo / National Geographic / Getty Images)
The Hubble Space Telescope (National Geographic)

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