Webb Spots a Massive Stellar Jet in the Outer Milky Way

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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged an extremely large stellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy in the proto-cluster Sh2-284. Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/NOAJ/Y. Cheng/J. DePasquale

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently imaged an extremely large and symmetric protostellar jet at the outskirts of our Milky Way galaxy. From tip to tip, this protostellar jet is 8 light-years across, about double the distance from our Sun to its closest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri.

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