HH 47

For the helicopter, see Boeing CH-47 Chinook#HH-47.
Herbig–Haro object HH47, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The scale bar represents 1000 Astronomical Units

HH-47 is a Herbig-Haro Object; a young star around 1400 light-years from our Sun that is ejecting material at tremendous speed (up to a million kilometres per hour) into its surrounds. This material glows as it hits surrounding gas.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Foncea, Valeria; Arce; Héctor (20 August 2013). "ALMA Takes Close Look at Drama of Starbirth". Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array. Retrieved 11 October 2013.
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