Four young stars with nearly edge-on disks
Four young stars with nearly edge-on disks observed by the Hubble Space Telescope. All are shown at the same linear scale, with each box being 1200 astronomical units square (111 billion miles, or about 20 times the diameter of Neptune's orbit). The different sizes and structures of the disks provide clues to their masses and evolutionary states.
Top row: NICMOS images of IRAS 04302+2247 and Orion 114-426.
Credit:Deborah Padgett, IPAC/Caltech
About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | Butterfly Star, HH 30, HK Tau C, IRAS 04302+2247, Orion 114-426 |
| Type: | Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object |
| Category: | Stars |
Colours & filters
| Band | Telescope |
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Hubble Space Telescope
NICMOS | |
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Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |