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Enter the Dragon 🐉🥋

Here it is – my new JWST image of the young protostellar outflow system in Cassiopeia called HH288, aka The Dragon Jet.

We discovered it in the 1990s & the NASA/ESA/CSA JWST reveals stunning new detail, including several new jets crossing the main dragon 🙂👍

This is a 4K version – you can view & download the full 12K image here: flickr.com/gp/markmccaughrean/…

For more coverage, see this by @DrCarpineti at: iflscience.com/dragon-jet-erup…

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An image of a young protostellar outflow called HH288 in space, as seen with JWST. Much of the background is dark black and blue, with many stars sprinkled across with different colours and brightnesses, many showing the classic eight-pointed shape that comes from the JWST optics. The Dragon Jet itself is a swath of red, orange, and yellow emission spread horizontally across the image, with at least two crossing flows. The main flow resembles a Chinese dragon, hence the name.

HH288, The Dragon Jet, as seen with JWST

A near-infrared colour composite image of the protostellar outflow system HH288, also known as The Dragon Jet, made using the NIRCam instrument on NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope.
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