Gas Plume From a Newborn Star in the Orion Nebula-Hubble Telescope Image From NASA-Boxed Notecard Set

Description

This image was taken with the HubbleTelescope. It is a picture of a hypersonic shock wave (lower right) of material moving at 148,000 miles per hour in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region 1,500 light-years away. Highly supersonic shock waves are formed by a beam of material coming out of the newly formed stars. The plume is only 1,500 years old. The Plume is 112 light-year across.