Herbig-Haro Jet HH 24 | Milky Way Wall Art Size:COSMIC (32 x 48) and subsequently identified in Viking

and subsequently identified in Viking Orbiter images taken more than 20 years before

Shock fronts develop along the jets and heat the surrounding gas to thousands of degrees Fahrenheit

the telescopes expose the stars in Orion as a rainbow of dots sprinkled throughout the image

The red is data from the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope showing the hot hydrogen gas in the same region

They were discovered on the first panoramas taken by the IMP camera on the July 4

Herbig-Haro Jet HH 24 | Milky Way Wall Art Size:COSMIC (32 x 48) and subsequently identified in VikingLying inside our home galaxy, the Milky Way, this HerbigHaro object is a turbulent birthing ground for new stars in a region known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1,350 light years away. HerbigHaro (HH) objects are bright patches of nebulosity associated with newborn stars that form when narrow jets of partially ionized gas ejected by stars collide with nearby clouds of gas and dust. This image of Herbig Haro Jet HH 24 was taken by the