ESA's surreal Hubble pic shows young star shooting supersonic jet; know all about it

European Space Agency (ESA) has released a brand new image captured by Hubble Space Telescope that showcases never-seen-before features. photograph shows an extremely young star, which is in earliest phase of formation, generating an energetic outburst running across dark cosmic sky. According to ESA, outburst is an incandescent jet of gas travelling at supersonic speeds that is creating colourfully wispy structures, which astronomers refer to as Herbig–Haro objects. 

More about  Herbig–Haro object

ESA explains that  wispy structures got ir colours after  jet collided with material surrounding still-forming star, which resulted in shock heating material and causing it to glow. This particular Herbig-Haro object is named HH34 and resides approximately 1,250 light-years from Earth. object can be found in Orion nebula, which is a large region of star formation visible to unaided eye. ESA says that Orion nebula has been studied by astronomers to get more insights into how stars and planetary systems are born as it is one of closest sites of widespre star formation to Earth. 

While image was released now, scientists observed it using Hubble telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 between 1994 and 2007 and again in 2015.

James Webb Space Telescope to target HH34

HH34 is also on long list of James Webb Space Telescope, which was launched on December 25, 2021, to observe early universe and make new discoveries in unprecedented detail. ESA says that Webb would observe HH34 in infrared wavelengths of light and peer into dusty envelopes to revolutionise study of jets from se young stars and still-forming protostars. "Hubble’s high-resolution images of HH34 and or jets will help astronomers interpret future observations with Webb", ESA said in a report. 

Webb telescope, which has been installed at second Lagrange point, is currently undergoing its commissioning phase wherein engineers are aligning its primary mirror and turning on instruments. Recently, telescope released a brand new image of a star it produced during  process of mirror alignment.