Hubble Spots Giant Flapping Shadow
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- Produced by:
- Paul Morris
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In 2017, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a huge wing-shaped shadow cast by a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk. The young star, called HBC 672, is casting the shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region—like a fly wandering into the beam of a flashlight shining on a wall.
Now, after observing the shadow again, astronomers report that they see the giant shadow flapping its "wings"!
For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope and its images, visit https://nasa.gov/hubble.
Music Credits:
“Floating Freefall” by Jason Steele [ ASCAP ]. Soundcast Music [ SESAC ] and Universal Production Music.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Visualizers
- Andi James (STScI)
- Greg Bacon (STScI)
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Producer
- Paul Morris (KBR Wyle Services, LLC) [Lead]
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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