HST reveals growth processes of young star
esahubble_opo9317a June 10th, 1993
Credit: Dick Schwatrz (Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis), and NASA/ESA
A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image of a vast cloud of gas being heated by the birth of a new star. This image is being presented at the 182nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Berkeley, California. Called Herbig-Haro object #2 (HH-2), the cloud is heated by shock waves from jets of high speed gas being ejected from a newborn star. Because the star itself is embedded in a dusty cocoon, HH-2 provides the only visible clues to physical processes occurring in the young star. The Hubble observations made with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera WF/PC) provide new insight into similar events that probably occurred when our Sun and Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9317a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9317a
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.2 B.4.1.5
- Subject Name
- HH 2
- Credits
- Dick Schwatrz (Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis), and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1993-06-10T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9317a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC1, WFPC1, WFPC1
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- SII, H-alpha, OIII
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 656, 502
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 2461.0, 2395.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9317a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9317a.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:39:13+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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