Haro 6-5B wider field
This wide-angle image (17,000 AU from top to bottom) shows the region around Haro 6-5b, which is located at the center of the field. Towards the bottom, colored in green, is a jet of glowing gas emitted from Haro 6-5b. The entire region is filled with dark dust. The disk of Haro 6-5b confines light emitted from the star into cones above and below the disk (something like a lampshade), illuminating the surrounding dust and forming the large hourglass-shaped pattern seen in the image.
Credit:
John Krist (STScI) and the WFPC2 Science Team
About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9905i |
| Type: | Observation |
| Release date: | 9 February 1999, 19:00 |
| Size: | 305 x 425 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Haro 6-5B |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object • Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Jet • Stars Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 450 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| Optical V |
555 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Optical R |
675 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
| Infrared I |
814 nm | Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 |
