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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
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                                    2025 May 28   
      
                                  Herbig-Haro 24   
      Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA) / Hubble-Europe   
                                   Collaboration   
       Acknowledgment: D. Padgett (GSFC), T. Megeath (University of Toledo),   
                        B. Reipurth (University of Hawaii)   
      
      Explanation: This might look like a double-bladed lightsaber, but these   
      two cosmic jets actually beam outward from a newborn star in a galaxy   
      near you. Constructed from Hubble Space Telescope image data, the   
      stunning scene spans about half a light-year across Herbig-Haro 24 (HH   
      24), some 1,300 light-years or 400 parsecs away in the stellar   
      nurseries of the Orion B molecular cloud complex. Hidden from direct   
      view, HH 24's central protostar is surrounded by cold dust and gas   
      flattened into a rotating accretion disk. As material from the disk   
      falls toward the young stellar object, it heats up. Opposing jets are   
      blasted out along the system's rotation axis. Cutting through the   
      region's interstellar matter, the narrow, energetic jets produce a   
      series of glowing shock fronts along their path.   
      
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