Year 3: M42 Gas Plume & Proplyds
This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a hypersonic shock wave (lower right) of material moving at 148,000 miles per hour in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region 1,500 light-years away.
Studies of similar objects infer that such highly supersonic shock waves are formed by a beam of material coming out of newly formed stars. The plume is only 1,500 years old. The image is 112 light-year across.
This color photograph is a composite of separate images taken at the wavelengths of the two abundant elements in the nebula: Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Credit: C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
For more information, visit: science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/gas-plume-from-a-newborn-st...
Year 3: M42 Gas Plume & Proplyds
This Hubble Space Telescope picture shows a hypersonic shock wave (lower right) of material moving at 148,000 miles per hour in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region 1,500 light-years away.
Studies of similar objects infer that such highly supersonic shock waves are formed by a beam of material coming out of newly formed stars. The plume is only 1,500 years old. The image is 112 light-year across.
This color photograph is a composite of separate images taken at the wavelengths of the two abundant elements in the nebula: Hydrogen and Oxygen.
Credit: C.R. O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA
For more information, visit: science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/gas-plume-from-a-newborn-st...