plasma



Plasma is found spewing from the poles of newborn stars moves in clumps that travel at different speeds. The resulting “traffic jams” create massive shock waves that travel trillions of miles, when fast-moving particles run into slower material on these cosmic freeways. Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope’s highly resolved images.



A team of astronomers have created these first moving pictures of one of these cosmic freeways, which are known as stellar jets. Gleaning important clues about a critical, yet poorly understood process of star-birth, the movies allow scientists to trace these stellar jet shock waves for the first time. The scientists traced these stellar jet shock waves for the first time from this movie. The November issue of Astronomical Journal published the results.



Via: Eureka Alert