Disk Around Young Star. A View of HH 30

Esahubble_opo9905j_1024

esahubble_opo9905j February 9th, 1999

Credit: Chris Burrows (STScI), the WFPC2 Science Team and NASA/ESA

This Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2(WFPC2) image shows Herbig-Haro 30 (HH 30), the prototype of a young star surrounded by a thin, dark disk and emitting powerful gaseous jets. The disk extends 40 billion miles (about 64 billion kilometres) from left to right in the image, dividing the nebula in two. The central star is hidden from direct view, but its light reflects off the upper and lower surfaces of the disk to produce the pair of reddish nebulae. The gas jets are shown in green.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905j/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
HH 30
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Young Stellar Object
Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk
Nebula > Type > Jet

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2) Optical -
Esahubble_opo9905j_1280
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ID
opo9905j
Subject Category
B.3.1.2   B.3.7.2   B.4.1.5  
Subject Name
HH 30
Credits
Chris Burrows (STScI), the WFPC2 Science Team and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1999-02-09T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905j/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
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
335.0, 335.0
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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
opo9905j
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:52:53+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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