Herbig-Haro objects
Objetos Herbig-Haro
- Date
- 1949-1952 · confidence high
- Place
- Tonantzintla Observatory, San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, Mexico
- Credited to
- Guillermo Haro (and, independently, George Herbig)
- People
- 👤 Guillermo Haro1913–1988
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Bright nebulae in star-forming regions that turned out to be jets of gas ejected by newborn stars colliding with the surrounding medium. They were key to understanding how stars are born.
Herbig (Lick) and Haro described them independently; Haro also discovered flare stars in Orion.
What it led to
- the study of protostellar jets
- modern Mexican astrophysics