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Webb's close-up, high-resolution ESA view of Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite details of the young star's jet. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, Tom Ray (Dublin)

Webb photographed supersonic jets from a star of his day

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Herbig-harrows are luminous regions surrounding young stars. They form when stellar winds or jets of gas ejected from these stars create shock waves that collide at high speeds with nearby gas and dust.
Cold beam experiments. The shock waves block the flow of particles in the beam. Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

Cold, frozen, warming: how to reduce shock waves in particle beam experiments

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Shock waves from the black hole traverse the galaxy

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