Figure Illustrating the Jet and Disk

Gaseous Jets From Three Newly Forming Stars

These NASA Hubble Space Telescope views of gaseous jets from three newly forming stars show a new level of detail in the star formation process, and are helping to solve decade-old questions about the secrets of star birth. Jets are a common "exhaust product" of the dynamics of...

Motion of Jets from an Embryonic Star (HH-30)

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals unprecedented detail in a newly forming star called HH-30. Exposures taken a year apart show the motion of high speed blobs of gas (arrows) that are being ejected from the star at a half-million miles per hour. The jets emanate from...

Pair of Jets from a Young Star (HH1/HH2)

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new secrets of star birth as revealed in a pair of eerie spectacular jet of gas the star has ejected by a young star. [top] - Tip to tip, this jet spans slightly more than a light-year. The fountainhead of this structure – the young...

Wiggling Jet from a Wobbling Star (HH-47)

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals new secrets of star birth as recorded in a spectacular jet of gas the star has ejected. [center] - Resembling the vertebrae of an imaginary space alien, this one-half light-year long jet of gas has burst out of a dark cloud of gas...

Reddish Jet of Gas Emanates From Forming Star HH-30

Bulbs of Gas Ejected From Forming Star HH-34

Three-Trillion-Mile-Long Jet From a Wobbly Star (HH-47)

HH-1/HH-2 Individual Image

Jet of Gas From Newly Forming Star HH-47

Diagram to accompany: Jets from Young Stars