Introduction: Herbig-Haro 24 is a very young star that is continuously sending a jet of energy beams into the darkness. This situation usually occurs on some black holes.
You may think that stars are some beautiful highlights in the black night sky. You even think of the sun when you mention stars. Because the sun seems very stable, it makes people take it for granted that the state of the stars is like it.
However, a star is actually a powerful monster with incoming hot gases, energy, and magnetic fields, all of which originate from a nuclear furnace located in its core.
The birth of a star is not calm, a step-by-step process, which often has violent explosions, and its power is huge enough to dwarf any of our ideas. In some cases, there is no source point for the explosion, and in some cases, parallel light hits directly to an incredible angle.
Herbig-Haro 24 The celestial body (or HH 24) belongs to the latter. This young star emits a Gemini energy beam into the darkness to announce its birth.
A young star of Orion announced its birth by launching a Gemini energy beam into the darkness, creating HH 24. Image source: NASA and ESA Acknowledge: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage
Image from Hubble shows the HH 24 celestial body and its surrounding infrared areas (colors are placed in different infrared filters, thus producing images that the human eye can recognize). Located far away in Orion, about 1400 light years, about the middle of the hunter's iconic belt with the bright Betelgeuse , HH 24 is part of Orion B (a mixed mass of dense, cold, dark gas and dust fog), an active star-generating zone where matter collapses throughout the mix to form new stars.
HH 24 The star in the core part is hidden behind the thick matter between it and us, so it cannot see its true appearance. After the cloud material that makes it collapses, it becomes a disc shape with a growing star in the center. The disk contains a strong magnetic field, which rotates into a tornado-like vortex near its center. The gas in the center is violently heated, overflows in the opposite direction of the star, and is concentrated by the magnetic field vortex. This process produces twin biomass and energy beams, (astronomers call it a jet), which are violently ejected from the star. We call these celestial bodies Herbig-Haro. Currently, there are dozens of such celestial bodies, and black holes also have similar activities.
artwork depicted in a vortex-like disk around a young star wrapped in it and emits a twin energy beam. Image source: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) The twin energy beam amplified by
HH 24 is extremely narrow, focusing can reach tens of billions of kilometers away, like a rocket passing through clouds, pushing open the surrounding matter, segmenting and illuminating the huge holes in the dense matter around them. The agglomerates appear in the vent of
may come from the moment more substances are ejected from the disc-like structures inside the star. They are ejected into the star and then ejected. After collision, they become slower substances in front of the vent. This process causes the temperature of these substances to rise and emit light. In this way, the spout looks like a string of pearls... If the string of pearls is one light-year long and is heated to thousands of degrees. ,
HH 24 position in the center of Orion (red cross, center). Image source: Aladin / DSS2 Zoom in
HH 24 is not a single figure. A huge leaf-like object on the upper right side seems to surround another spout, perhaps another Herbig-Haro celestial object embedded in stardust. If you look at it further, you will find some similar situations. This area is famous for the birth of stars to form such vents.
Interestingly, the nozzle on the left of HH 24 seems to have slightly changed its direction upward after passing the bright material on the left side of the central cavity. This may be just a coincidence, or it may have been deflected by hitting high-density material. The leaf-like object at the lower position on the left just pointed in the same direction, which made me realize that a star is forming inside another high-density mass.
HH celestial bodies will not last long in the universe. At some point in the future, the mechanism by which HH 24 ejects these substances will end, and the smoke will disappear, and HH 24 settles down and becomes a "normal" star similar to the sun. The vortex disc on the periphery (which used to be part of the cause of the ejection) will also form stars. Millions of years later, it will look a little like our solar system...that suggests that our galaxy might also be as active as HH 24 in its heyday.
People usually stare at the beauty of the power that shapes the stars in this picture in awe, but leave a little awe for ourselves. Billions of years ago, our galaxies evolved in this way.
BY: Phil Plait
FY: sissimine
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