The stunning image was taken by NASA’s Hubble Telescope and shows the major ingredients of a star beginning to come together. The forming star, known as a nebula, is just 1,000 light years away from Earth and is a clear picture of the birth of a young star. A plethora of dust and gas can be seen in the image, and NASA say they are colliding and swirling at speeds of 150,000 miles per hour.
The newborn star is known as SVS 13 and is in the midst of Herbig-Haro objects.
The space agency explains: “Herbig–Haro objects are formed when jets of ionised gas ejected by a young star collide with nearby clouds of gas and dust at high speeds.
“The Herbig-Haro objects visible in this image are no exception to this and were formed when the jets from the newborn star SVS 13 collided with the surrounding clouds.
“These collisions created the five brilliant clumps of light within the reflection nebula.”
The Hubble telescope is set to be retired in 2021, after which the more powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will take over.
JWST is so powerful it will make the Hubble Telescope look like a pair of binoculars, fans say.
The infrared machine is so powerful it will reach back to the furthest realms and the earliest moments of the universe.
And the JWST has the capability of scanning thousands of planets for alien life – even though those planets are thousands of light years away.
One of the major differences between Hubble and JWST will be how far back in time it will be able to see.
Hubble can see far into space and is essentially looking back in time as light travels to the craft.
Through Hubble, experts have been able to view the formation of the first galaxies, about one billion years after the Big Bang.
However, as JWST is much more powerful, it will be able to see just 0.3 billion years after the Big Bang to when visible light itself was beginning to form.
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