by harry » Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:19 am
G'day
Photo Release - heic0917: Born in beauty: proplyds in the Orion Nebula
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0917.html
14-Dec-2009: A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to the topic of star and planet formation. Also known as proplyds, or protoplanetary discs, these modest blobs surrounding baby stars are shedding light on the mechanism behind planet formation. Only the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with its high resolution and sensitivity, can take such detailed pictures of circumstellar discs at optical wavelengths.
Interesting as the ABS says.
G'day
Photo Release - heic0917: Born in beauty: proplyds in the Orion Nebula
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0917.html
[quote]14-Dec-2009: A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to the topic of star and planet formation. Also known as proplyds, or protoplanetary discs, these modest blobs surrounding baby stars are shedding light on the mechanism behind planet formation. Only the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, with its high resolution and sensitivity, can take such detailed pictures of circumstellar discs at optical wavelengths.[/quote]
Interesting as the ABS says.