Jet from Young Star (HH-30)
esahubble_opo9524e June 6th, 1995
Credit: C. Burrows (STScI & ESA), the WFPC 2 Investigation Definition Team, and NASA
This view of a protostellar object called HH-30 reveals an edge-on disk of dust encircling a newly forming star. Light from the forming star illuminates the top and bottom surfaces of the disk, making them visible, while the star itself is hidden behind the densest parts of the disk. The reddish jet emanates from the inner region of the disk, and possibly directly from the star itself. Hubble's detailed view shows, for the first time, that the jet expands for several billion miles from the star, but then stays confined to a narrow beam. The protostar is 450 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9524e/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9524e
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.2 B.4.1.5
- Subject Name
- HH 30
- Credits
- C. Burrows (STScI & ESA), the WFPC 2 Investigation Definition Team, and NASA
- Release Date
- 1995-06-06T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9524e/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/133/6/2799/205607.text.html
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 512.0, 512.0
- 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
- opo9524e
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9524e.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:44:06+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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