Stretching across 8 light-years, the rare stellar eruption is about twice the distance between our sun and the next nearest stars.

The host proto-cluster – or group of galaxies in the early stages of formation – that’s home to the jet is on the periphery of our Milky Way galaxy.

NASA's recently got a front-row seat to some incredible stellar fireworks on .

The eruption of gases from a stellar jet in a distant nebula is so big that it as a "volcanically growing monster star."

Need another description to put the cosmic show into context? As put it, Webb's image of the stellar jet – streaking across at hundreds of thousands of miles per hour – resembles a double-bladed dueling lightsaber like the one Darth Maul used in the "Star Wars" franchise.

Stretching across 8 light-years, is about

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