# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DJNQaOnN9_H
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35582147-europeanspaceagency-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-05-03T21:50:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** J.L.Lopez (@xandler80) — https://gondola.cc/xandler80

## Caption

Cosmic chaos meets distant elegance 💁‍♀️

In this spectacular image, esawebb offers us a rare cosmic double act: a nearby stellar outflow from a young star (Herbig-Haro 49/50) and, just by chance, a distant face-on spiral galaxy in the background.

What you’re seeing in orange and red are glowing jets of gas, dust, and molecules blasting out from a forming star in the Chamaeleon constellation, about 630 light-years away. These jets slam into nearby material, creating shock waves — like a cosmic wake — that light up in infrared.

Webb’s powerful Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument have revealed the finest details yet of this dramatic scene, helping astronomers piece together how young stars shape their surroundings.

But look closer — see that fuzzy object at the tip of the "cosmic tornado"? That’s not part of the outflow at all. It’s a spiral galaxy, much, much farther away, its structure visible in astonishing detail. You can even spot warm clumps of dust and star-forming regions in its arms, and a central bulge glowing in blue.

This lucky alignment allows scientists to explore how stellar jets behave in their birth clouds and to admire a galaxy as it was billions of years ago — all in one frame.

Just another example of how Webb continues to surprise, inspire, and rewrite what we thought we knew about our Universe.

📸 NASA, europeanspaceagency, canadianspaceagency , space_telescopes; creativecommons BY 4.0
📹 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale, L.Hustak, G. Bacon, R. Crawford, D. Kirshenblat, C. Nieves, Alyssa Pagan , F. Summers
📹 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb)
📹 NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, esoastronomy, Digitized Sky Survey 2, unWISE, nasajpl-caltechedu, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb), E. Slawik, N. Risinger, D. De Martin, D. Lang (perimeterinstitute), M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Publisher |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Community Manager |

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