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Celestial Lightsabers: Stellar Jets in HH24

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This sequence combines a two-dimensional zoom and a three-dimensional flight to explore Hubble’s striking image of the Herbig-Haro object known as HH24. The movie starts with a night sky view of the Orion constellation and zooms in. Located above the left side of Orion’s Belt is the vast dark nebula called the Orion B molecular cloud complex. Within this molecular cloud are many bright regions where stars are forming. This video closes in toward one particularly energetic example.... Read More