European Space Agency, ESA 175d ago

This video takes the viewer on a journey through space to a new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope of an extremely large stellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy in the proto-cluster Sh2-284. This Herbig-Haro (HH) object, jets of plasma shooting out from newly formed stars, is 8 light-years across. This is about double the distance from our Sun to its closest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri. Its detection provides evidence that HH jets scale with the mass of their parent stars—the more massive the stellar engine driving the plasma, the larger the resulting jet. 📹 European Space Agency (ESA) 📸 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ESA/Hubble, CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, Digitized Sky Survey 2, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. De Martin, D. Minniti, T.A. Rector, J. Miller, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) #ESA #Webb #Space