Zooming in on a Newborn Star | ESO

Zooming in on a Newborn Star | ESO

This zoom sequence starts with a wide view of the southern Milky Way and then closes in on a rich region of dark clouds and young stars in the constellation of Vela (The Sails). One of these dark star-forming clouds features the Herbig-Haro object HH 46/47 where jets from a young star are colliding with the surrounding material. This object was the target of a study using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) during the Early Science phase.

Distance: 1,400 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/Nick Risinger

Duration: 56 seconds

Release Date: August 22, 2013

#NASA #ESO #Astronomy #Space #Science #Stars #StarFormation #HH4647 #HerbigHaroObject #Vela #Constellation #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Cosmos #Universe #NTTTelescope #ParanalObservatory #Chile #ALMA #Europe #STEM #Education #HD #Video