Hubble spots newborn star firing a 32-light-year jet of glowing gas
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers observed a massive newborn star lighting up interstellar clouds as it launches a jet traveling about 2.2 million mph, the longest protostellar outflow seen to date at roughly 32 light-years, with HH 80 and HH 81 glowing as the jet interacts with surrounding gas; the image and data illuminate how accretion disks and magnetic fields drive early star formation and jet activity.