esahubble_opo9545f November 20th, 1995
Credit: Mark McCaughrean (Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy), C. Robert O'Dell (Rice University), and NASA/ESA
Hubble Space Telescope discovered four protoplanetary disks around young stars in the Orion nebula, located 1, 500 light-years away. This is one of them. Gas and dust disks, long suspected by astronomers to be an early stage of planetary formation, can be directly seen in visible light by Hubble.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545f/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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