HH 34 Bow Shock Video (Annotated)

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Duration: 4 seconds

A grouping of merged bow shocks reveals regions that brighten and fade over time as the heated material cools where the shocks intersect.


Tags
Bow Shocks, Emission Nebulae, Hubble Telescope, Illustrative, Nebulae, Observations, Stars, Stellar Jets

Credits

Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Hartigan (Rice University), and G. Bacon (STScI)

Publication: August 31, 2011


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