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Herbig-Haro 49/50

Herbig-Haro 49/50
Herbig-Haro 49/50 This image, taken by NASA/ESA's James Webb Space Telescope, shows what happens when an outflow of gas from a newborn star slams into other clouds around it: a billowing shape called a Herbig-Haro object. The newborn star is not shown; the bright shape to the upper left of the object is a background galaxy there by coincidence. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI