The ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) captured the S-shaped jet of 244-440 and it’s the sharpest image yet of this young stellar object. If you’re wondering why there’s a squiggly magenta structure, it’s because young stars are typically surrounded by discs of material falling towards the star, and some of that can be expelled into powerful jets perpendicular to the disc.
As for the S-shaped jet of 244-440, this suggests that the center of this stellar object isn’t just a single star, but rather two of them orbiting each other. This orbital motion periodically changes the orientation of the jet, similar to a water sprinkler, but its shape could also be caused by the strong radiation from the other stars in the Orion cloud.
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MUSE actually takes thousands of images at different colors or wavelengths simultaneously. This allows astronomers to study not only the distribution of many different chemical elements but also how they move. Moreover, MUSE is installed at the VLT’s Unit Telescope 4, which is equipped with an advanced adaptive optics facility that corrects atmospheric turbulence, delivering images sharper than Hubble’s,” said the ESO.
