Planets are born here!
These are images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of protoplanetary disks around young stars in visible and infrared light. These clumps of dust and gas are where new planets are likely to form.
In many of the images, in addition to the disks themselves, we see jets—narrow streams of material emanating from the protostar. These jets, ejected from the magnetic poles of stars, are an important part of their formation process. The jets are guided by the powerful magnetic fields of the protostar and carry away angular momentum from the rotating star. This allows the protostar to rotate slowly enough for matter to continue accumulating.