Hubble Heritage Project's First Anniversary
To mark the first anniversary of the Hubble Heritage Project, we present four NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images of nebulae surrounding stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. Two of these Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 images (Herbig Haro 32 and Hubble's Variable Nebula) show interstellar gas and dust around young stars at the beginning of their lives, and two more (NGC 2346 and NGC 2440) show gas ejected from old stars that are nearing the end of theirs. Remarkably, in spite of the completely different evolutionary stages, the nebulae have more striking features in common, including evidence of diametrically opposed gas ejections from both the young and old stars.
Credit:About the Image
About the Object
Name: | HH 32, IRAS 07068-0043, IRAS 07396-1805, NGC 2346, NGC 2440, Variable Nebula |
Type: | Milky Way : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Young Stellar Object Milky Way : Nebula : Type : Jet |
Category: | Nebulae |
Colours & filters
Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
---|---|---|
Optical SII | 673 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Optical H-alpha | 656 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Optical R | 675 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |