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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