The protostar, called HH 30, is what's known in astronomy as a Herbig-Haro object – a bright patch of cosmic emission associated with newborn stars. The Hubble Space Telescope was the first to ...

The Carina Nebula, a vast star-forming region, shines bright with new stars and protostars in this NASA image. A protostar, HH 34, is captured in this image, surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that ...

The arc-shaped features in HH 49/50, similar to a water wake created by a speeding boat, point back to the source of this outflow. Based on past observations, scientists suspect that a protostar known ...