This scene resembles a double-bladed lightsaber from Star Wars. In fact, it is two cosmic jets emitted by a star that has just been born in the center of a galaxy. Based on observation data from the Hubble Space Telescope, this scene encompasses a landscape about half a light-year (光年·1 light-year is the distance light travels in one year, approximately 9.46 trillion kilometers) in scale of Herbig-Haro 24.
Herbig-Haro 24 is located about 1,300 light-years (400 parsecs) from Earth in a star formation region of the ORION B molecular cloud complex. The central protostar, which cannot be directly observed, is surrounded by a rotating disk structure made up of cold, dense gas and dust.
As the disk material falls onto the star, it heats up, and jets are ejected in opposite directions along the axis of rotation of the celestial body. These narrow, powerful jets create a luminous shock wave front along their path.