Herbig-Haro 49/50 — Spitzer to Webb Space Telescope Dissolve #shorts

Compare the views from the Spitzer and Webb space telescopes of Herbig-Haro 49/50—an outflow from a nearby still-forming star. Both show the cone-shaped feature in infrared as a fast-moving jet from a nearby young star slams into the surrounding dust and gas.

However, in the older Spitzer image, there is a fuzzy-looking object positioned near the tip of the outflow. Scientists weren’t sure what it was. But with new Webb high-resolution infrared views of HH 49/50, that “fuzzy” object is clearly a more distant spiral galaxy.

Looking closely at the core region of the spiral galaxy, it appears to display hints of “sidelobes”, which suggests the galaxy could be a barred spiral galaxy.

Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, NASA-JPL, SSC

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