Disk Around Young Star. A View of HK Tauri

Esahubble_opo9905m_1024

esahubble_opo9905m February 9th, 1999

Credit: Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA/ESA

HK Tauri is the first example of a young binary star system with an edge-on disk around one member of the pair. The thin, dark disk is illuminated by the light of its hidden central star. The absence of jets indicates that the star is not actively accreting material from this disk. The disk diameter is 20 billion miles (about 32 billion kilometres). The brighter primary star appears at top of the image.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905m/

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
Haro 6-12 IRAS 04288+2417
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Young Stellar Object
Star > Grouping > Binary
Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Hubble (WFPC2) Optical -
Esahubble_opo9905m_1280
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ID
opo9905m
Subject Category
B.3.1.2   B.3.6.1   B.3.7.2  
Subject Name
Haro 6-12, IRAS 04288+2417
Credits
Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1999-02-09T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905m/
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
356.0, 356.0
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
opo9905m
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:52:57+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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