NICMOS Peers Through Dust to Reveal Young Stellar Disks. A View of IRAS 04016+2610

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esahubble_opo9905o February 9th, 1999

Credit: D. Padgett (IPAC/Caltech), W. Brandner (IPAC), K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA/ESA

A very young star still deep within the dusty cocoon from which it formed is shown in this image of IRAS 04016+2610. The star is visible as a bright reddish spot at the base of a bowl-shaped nebula about 100 billion miles (about 160 billion kilometres) across at the widest point. The nebula arises from dusty material falling onto a forming circumstellar disk, seen as a partial dark band to the left of the star. The necklace of bright spots above the star is an image artifact.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905o/

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
IRAS 04016+2610
Subject - Milky Way
Star > Evolutionary Stage > Young Stellar Object
Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (NICMOS) Infrared (K) 2.1 µm
Green Hubble (NICMOS) Infrared (H) 1.6 µm
Blue Hubble (NICMOS) Infrared (J) 1.1 µm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
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ID
opo9905o
Subject Category
B.3.1.2   B.3.7.2  
Subject Name
IRAS 04016+2610
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/opo9905o/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/561/1/299/53763.text.html
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
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
opo9905o
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:52:57+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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