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- Written by: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts.
Both objects are in the constellation Orion and lie around 1,250 light-years from Earth. HH 1 is the luminous cloud above the bright star in the upper right of this image, and HH 2 is the cloud in the bottom left.
While both Herbig-Haro objects are visible, the young star system responsible for their creation is lurking out of sight, swaddled in the thick clouds of dust at the center of this image.
However, an outflow of gas from one of these stars is streaming out from the central dark cloud and is visible as a bright jet. Astronomers once thought the bright star between that jet and the HH 1 cloud was the source of these jets, but it is an unrelated double star that formed nearby.
Herbig-Haro objects are glowing clumps found around some newborn stars. They form when jets of gas thrown outwards from these young stars collide with surrounding gas and dust at incredibly high speeds. In 2002, Hubble observations revealed that parts of HH 1 are moving at more than 248 miles per second!
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured this turbulent stellar nursery using 11 different filters at infrared, visible, and ultraviolet wavelengths.
Each of these filters is sensitive to just a small slice of the electromagnetic spectrum, and they allow astronomers to pinpoint interesting processes that emit light at specific wavelengths.
In the case of HH 1 and 2, two groups of astronomers requested Hubble observations for two different studies.
The first delved into the structure and motion of the Herbig-Haro objects visible in this image, giving astronomers a better understanding of the physical processes occurring when outflows from young stars collide with surrounding gas and dust.
The second study investigated the outflows themselves to lay the groundwork for future observations with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Webb, with its ability to peer past the clouds of dust enveloping young stars, will revolutionize the study of outflows from young stars.
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Pacific Gas and Electric said a public safety power shutoff, or PSPS, is likely on Sunday, Oct. 23, and Monday, Oct. 24, as a result of high winds and dry conditions.
In addition to Lake, counties under watch for Sunday are Butte, Colusa, Fresno, Glenn, Kern, Napa, Stanislaus, Tehama and Yolo.
On Monday, counties under watch are Lake, Butte, Kern, Napa and Tehama.
PG&E said specific addresses, maps and shutoff details are typically available two days before a shutoff.
Updates are available at PG&E’s PSPS page.
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This year’s event takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 29, at the front lobby entrance of the police station at 2025 S. Main St.
During the event, the agency will accept all over-the-counter or prescription medications in pill, tablet, liquid, cream or capsule form including schedule II-V controlled and non-controlled substances.
Pills need to be emptied out of their containers and placed in a zip lock plastic bag — not paper — so they can easily see the contents to make sure there is nothing in the bag they can’t take.
The department said it will collect vape pens or other e-cigarette devices from individual consumers only after the batteries are removed from the devices.
Items that will not be accepted during the event are illegal drugs, needles, inhalers or aerosol cans.
Since the Lakeport Police Department started participating with the prescription Take Back Program in January of 2019, it has collected over 978 pounds of prescription drugs, many of which were dangerous narcotics including opioids.
“This protects our community by keeping these drugs from being diverted to illegal use and keeps it out of our environment and water,” the department said.
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The California Highway Patrol, with the support of the grant-funded Start Smart Teen Driver Safety Education Program XV, has launched new Start Smart classes.
These classes coincide with National Teen Driver Safety Week, which runs Oct. 16 to 22.
Drivers between 15 and 19 years of age are at greater risk of being involved in fatal crashes.
The Start Smart program is designed to help teens learn how to avoid distractions and address the dangers typically encountered by drivers in their age group.
According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, there are nearly 792,970 licensed teenage drivers in California, which increased by 6% since last year.
Data from the CHP’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System indicated that in 2020 there were 6,644 fatal and injury crashes involving teen drivers between 15 to 19 years of age.
This age group has the largest proportion of drivers who were distracted at the time of the fatal crashes.
Start Smart is a free class aimed at helping teenage drivers become aware of the responsibilities that accompany the privilege of being a licensed California driver.
Parents or guardians are required to attend with their teenage driver as they participate in this
two-hour Start Smart class, completion of which may lower the cost of a young driver’s vehicle insurance. The class is being offered at CHP Area offices throughout the State.
“The Start Smart program exists to save young lives as they move into their journey behind the wheel,” said CHP Commissioner Amanda Ray.
Parents and teenagers can register for a Start Smart class by contacting their local CHP Area office. More information about Start Smart and California’s provisional licensing law is available on the free CHP Start Smart mobile app.
This mobile app includes access to the California Driver Handbook and a trip logger to track driving time as teens prepare to obtain their driver license.
Funding for this program was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.