Zooming on Gas Jets from a Young Star in Orion | Hubble

Zooming on Gas Jets from a Young Star in Orion | Hubble

This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming on the knotted clumps of gas that make up the Herbig–Haro object 24, as the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope sees it.

Distance: 1,500 light years

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey, N. Risinger

Duration: 50 seconds 

Release Date: December 17, 2015

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