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    9 days ago

    I think the object pictures is HH30 (HH for Herbig-Haro object.

    What you can see is the proto planetary disk around a newly formed star and the jets of matter ejected by the star.

    The disk will later collapse into the planets orbiting the star and the jets will fade.

    Edit: For these kinds of objects, the stars are often not fully formed, hence they are called proto stars.