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.
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About the Image
NASA press release
NASA caption
NASA caption
| Id: | opo9545b |
| Type: | Collage |
| Release date: | 20 November 1995, 06:00 |
| Size: | 600 x 715 px |
About the Object
| Name: | Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Proplyd |
| Type: | • Milky Way : Star : Circumstellar Material : Disk : Protoplanetary • Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Star Formation • Stars Images/Videos • Nebulae Images/Videos |
| Distance: | 1400 light years |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
| 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 |
