The dynamic HH-30 disk and jet
These images of HH 30 show changes over only a five-year period in the disk and jets of this newborn star, which is about half a million years old. The pictures were taken between 1995 and 2000 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2aboard NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers are interested in the disk because it is probably similar to the one from which the Sun and the planets in our solar system formed.
Credit:NASA, Alan Watson (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Karl Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), John Krist and Chris Burrows (European Space Agency/ Space Telescope Science Institute).
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | HH 30 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk |
| Distance: | 450 light years |
| Category: | Stars |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Optical R | 675 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |