NICMOS Peers Through Dust to Reveal Young Stellar Disks. A View of CoKu Tau/1
esahubble_opo9905d February 9th, 1999
Credit: D. Padgett (IPAC/Caltech), W. Brandner (IPAC), K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA/ESA
This image shows a newborn binary star system, CoKu Tau/1, lying at the center of four 'wings' of light extending as much as 75 billion miles (about 120 billion kilometres) from the pair. The 'wings' outline the edges of a region in the stars' dusty surroundings, which have been cleared by outflowing gas. A thin, dark lane extends to the left and to right of the binary, suggesting that a disk or ring of dusty material encircles the two young stars.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9905d
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.2 B.3.6.1 B.3.7.2
- Subject Name
- CoKu Tau 1
- Credits
- D. Padgett (IPAC/Caltech), W. Brandner (IPAC), K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1999-02-09T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: www.astro.wisc.edu/sirtf/Robitaille2007a.pdf
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS, NICMOS, NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Infrared
- Bandpass
- K, H, J
- Central Wavelength
- 2050, 1600, 1100
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 256.0, 256.0
- 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
- opo9905d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9905d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:52:49+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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