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Mark McCaughrean on Nostr: Teaser šŸ˜‰ In the 1990s, I discovered this beauty while making an IR survey of dense ...

Teaser šŸ˜‰

In the 1990s, I discovered this beauty while making an IR survey of dense molecular cloud cores in the Milky Way, searching for signs of star formation āœØšŸ”­

Almost 10 light years long, it's a bipolar outflow of gas ejected at hundreds of km/sec from a young, massive protostar 🌟

Officially HH288, it's also called The Dragon Jet, thanks to its fire-breathing appearance šŸ‰

And next week, you'll get to see my JWST image of it – it's special 😱

Stay tuned šŸ“»

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