Protoplanetary Discs in the Orion Nebula
These are Hubble Space Telescope images of four newly discovered protoplanetary disks around young stars in the Orion nebula, located 1, 500 light-years away. Gas and dust disks, long suspected by astronomers to be an early stage of planetary formation, can be directly seen in visible light by Hubble.
Credit:About the Image
About the Object
Name: | Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Proplyd |
Type: | Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk : Protoplanetary Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation |
Distance: | 1400 light years |
Category: | Nebulae Stars |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
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Optical OIII | 502 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Optical H-alpha | 656 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Optical NII | 658 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |