NICMOS Peers Through Dust to Reveal Young Stellar Disks. A View of IRAS 04302+2247
esahubble_opo9905q February 9th, 1999
Credit: D. Padgett (IPAC/Caltech), W. Brandner (IPAC), K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA/ESA
This image shows IRAS 04302+2247, a star hidden from direct view and seen only by the nebula it illuminates. Dividing the nebula in two is a dense, edge-on disk of dust and gas which appears as the thick, dark band crossing the center of the image. The disk has a diameter of 80 billion miles (15 times the diameter of Neptune's orbit), and has a mass comparable to the Solar Nebula, which gave birth to our planetary system. Dark clouds and bright wisps above and below the disk suggest that it is still building up from infalling dust and gas.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9905q/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9905q
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.2
- Subject Name
- Butterfly Star, IRAS 04302+2247
- 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/opo9905q/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from: http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/588/1/373/56723.text.html
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- NICMOS
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared
- Bandpass
- Near-IR
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 255.0, 255.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- 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
- opo9905q
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9905q.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:52:59+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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