Bright nebular patches formed when jets of gas from young stars collide with surrounding interstellar material at high speeds. These objects appear as small, colorful nebulae that change shape over years or decades.
Named after astronomers George Herbig and Guillermo Haro who independently studied these objects in the 1940s and 1950s. They recognized these nebulae as a distinct class of astronomical objects associated with star formation.
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