HH-30 - Stellar Disc and Jet Motion
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals unprecedented detail in a newly forming star called HH-30. Exposures taken a year apart show the motion of high speed blobs of gas (arrows) that are being ejected from the star at a half-million miles per hour (about 800 thousand kilometres per hour).
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About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9524b |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 6 June 1995, 20:00 |
| Size: | 751 x 600 px |
About the Object
| Name: | HH 30 |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object • Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk • Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Jet • Stars Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 450 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
| Optical | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
