Journey to Herbig-Haro Object 49/50 in Chamaeleon | Webb Telescope

Journey to Herbig-Haro Object 49/50 in Chamaeleon | Webb Telescope

This video takes the viewer on a journey to Herbig-Haro 49/50, an outflow from a nearby still-forming star, in high-resolution near- and mid-infrared light with the James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). The intricate features of the outflow, represented in reddish-orange color, provide detailed clues about how young stars form and how their jet activity affects the environment around them. A chance alignment in this direction of the sky provides a beautiful juxtaposition of this nearby Herbig-Haro object (located within our Milky Way) with a more distant, face-on spiral galaxy in the background.

Herbig-Haro 49/50 is located about 630 light-years from Earth in the constellation Chamaeleon.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ESO, Digitized Sky Survey 2, unWISE, JPL-Caltech, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. De Martin, D. Lang (Perimeter Institute), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)
Duration: 1  minute
Release Date: March 24, 2025

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