An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal” reports a study that reveals in detail never before seen the physical and chemical effects of the impact of a protostellar jet in the Orion Nebula. A team of researchers led by José Eduardo Méndez Delgado, a doctoral student at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), used observations conducted with the VLT and twenty years of images from the Hubble Space Telescope. This made it possible to examine the impact of the protostellar jet emitted by the object cataloged as HH204 on the surrounding environment and the consequent changes in the density and temperature of the gas in the Orion Nebula. This in turn caused an increase in the gas level of atoms of heavy elements such as iron and nickel.