Nasa captures the birth of a star in stunning Hubble picture - Metro.co.uk

The Hubble space telescope has just captured another stunning image to add to its impressive collection.

The space-based telescope has caught on camera the moment a star is born.

And we’re not talking about Brad Cooper crooning next to Lady Gaga, either. This is a proper star sending out what Nasa calls ‘bright Herbig-Haro objects’ as jets of hot gas collide with the freezing matter circulating through the vacuum of space.

(Picture: ESA/Hubble/NASA) In this image the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the smoking gun of a newborn star, the Herbig???Haro objects numbered 7 to 11 (HH 7???11). These five objects, visible in blue in the top centre of the image, lie within NGC 1333, a reflection nebula full of gas and dust found about a thousand light-years away from Earth. Herbig-Haro objects like HH 7???11 are transient phenomena. Travelling away from the star that created them, at a speed of up to 250 000 kilometres per hour they disappear into nothingness within a few tens of thousands of years. The young star that is the source of HH 7-11 is called SVS 13 and all five objects are moving away from SVS 13 toward the upper left. The current distance between HH 7 and SVS 13 is about 20 000 times the distance between Earth and the Sun. 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. — Not a bad Hubble, not bad (ESA/Hubble)

Nasa posted the image to its Instagram page and has amassed nearly 700k likes.

‘In this image, these five objects can be seen at the top center as bright blue streaks traveling away from the star that created them at 150,000 miles per hour, towards the upper left,’ the space agency explained.

‘Since Hubble’s launch and deployment in April 1990, our view of the universe and our place within it has never been the same.’

UNSPECIFIED - OCTOBER 03: The Hubble Space Telescope, Space (Photo by NASA/National Geographic/Getty Images) — The Hubble Space Telescope (National Geographic)

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