Disk Around Young Star. A View of DG Tauri B

esahubble_opo9905k February 9th, 1999

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

DG Tauri B appears very similar to HH 30, with jets and a central dark lane with reflected starlight at its edges. In this WFPC2 image, the dust lane is much thicker than seen in HH 30, indicating that dusty material is still in the process of falling onto the hidden star and disk. The bright jet extends a distance of 90 billion miles (about 145 billion kilometres) away from the system.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905k/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: DG Tau B
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Evolutionary Stage > Young Stellar Object; Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk

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ID: opo9905k
Subject Category: B.3.1.2 B.3.7.2
Subject Name: DG Tau B
Credits: Chris Burrows (STScI), the WFPC2 Science Team and NASA/ESA

Release Date: 1999-02-09T19:00:00
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Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905k/

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Distance Notes: Distance in light years from: http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full/2001/09/aa10248/aa10248.html

Facility: None, None, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: None, None, WFPC2
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei München
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: opo9905k

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9905k.tif
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Metadata Date: 2003-12-09T17:52:54+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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