Protoplanetary Disc

esahubble_opo9424c June 13th, 1994

Credit: C.R. O'Dell/Rice University NASA/ESA

A Hubble Space Telescope view of a very young star (between 300, 000 and a million years of age) surrounded by material left over from the star's formation. The cool, reddish star is about one fifth the mass of our Sun.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9424c/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: M 42 • Messier 42 • NGC 1976 • Orion Proplyd
Subject - Milky Way: Nebula > Appearance > Dark > Proplyd

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Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (NII)	658.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (H-alpha)	656.0 nm
Hubble (WFPC2)	Optical (OIII)	502.0 nm

ID: opo9424c
Subject Category: B.4.2.3.3
Subject Name: M 42, Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Proplyd
Credits: C.R. O'Dell/Rice University NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1994-06-13T06:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9424c/

Type: Observation
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Facility: Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment: Red, Green, Blue

Band: Optical, Optical, Optical
Bandpass: NII, H-alpha, OIII
Central Wavelength: 658, 656, 502

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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9424c

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9424c.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:41:33+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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