Mysterious ‘Blue Lights’ discovered about 12 million light-years away are clusters of orphan stars that formed in an unlikely part of the universe. An analysis of archived high-resolution images from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that the stars were clusters of mostly young stars. Scientists were surprised by the find, because the clusters of massive stars sit along a wispy bridge of gases it collided with 200 million years ago. This means that the stars are in the middle of a great void.
Astronomers have now found new evidence of matter that spirals outward from a young star like a jetstream. Due to this spiral motion, the jets help the star to grow by drawing momentum from the surrounding disk. Angular momentum is the tendency for a spinning object to continue spinning. It applies to star formation because a star forms at the center of a rotating disk of hydrogen gas. A star grows by gathering material from the disk. However, gas cannot fall inward toward the star until that gas sheds its excess angular momentum. As hydrogen nears the star, a fraction of the gas is ejected outward perpendicular to the disk in opposite directions, like water from a fire hose, in a bipolar jet. If the gas spirals around the axis of the jet, then it will carry angular momentum with it away from the star.