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Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the disk’s playful name comes from its discoverers, one from Transylvania and another from Uruguay, where the national dish is a sandwich called a chivito.

Thanks to Hubble, we now can see this disk’s surprising scale and detail. Dracula’s Chivito is not just the largest protoplanetary disk ever imaged, it’s also a window into how planets are born and how systems like ours began.


For more information, visit science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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