Hubble's still got it.
, but as an incredible new image of the Orion Nebula goes to show, it's still delivering some mind-blowing new images of the cosmos. refers to it, is what is known as a "Herbig-Haro object," which are the glowing clouds that surround stars as they're born.
Herbig-Haro objects, "are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shockwaves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds," according to the ESA.Close Encounters The gigantic Orion Nebula is one of the most studied objects in space both because of its massive size — it
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