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Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage for Planet Birth in New Hubble Images
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Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage for Planet Birth in New Hubble Images
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What is a Space Science Update? Major Hubble discoveries on NASA television ... Astronomers explain their Hubble discoveries at a press conference, called a Space Science Update (SSU), broadcast on NASA television. The SSU includes a question and answer session with members of the media. Dramatic pictures of eerie disks of dust encircling young stars are giving astronomers a new look at what may be the early formative stages of planetary systems. Although these pictures from the Hubble telescope don't show planets, the edge-on disks seen by the telescope provide some of the clearest views to date of potential planetary construction zones, say researchers. The images also offer a peek at what happened 4.5 billion years ago when the Earth and other planets in our solar system began to condense out of a pancake-shaped disk of dust and gas centered on the young Sun. These images were taken by Hubble's infrared camera. All of the objects in these pictures are extremely young stars, buried in the centers of these pictures. The wisps of material surrounding the young stars are glowing from reflected starlight. Read more: * Release Text [ http://hubblesite.o…]
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What is a Space Science Update? Major Hubble discoveries on NASA television ... Astronomers explain their Hubble discoveries at a press conference, called a Space Science Update (SSU), broadcast on NASA television. The SSU includes a question and answer session with members of the media. Dramatic pictures of eerie disks of dust encircling young stars are giving astronomers a new look at what may be the early formative stages of planetary systems. Although these pictures from the Hubble telescope don't show planets, the edge-on disks seen by the telescope provide some of the clearest views to date of potential planetary construction zones, say researchers. The images also offer a peek at what happened 4.5 billion years ago when the Earth and other planets in our solar system began to condense out of a pancake-shaped disk of dust and gas centered on the young Sun. These images were taken by Hubble's infrared camera. All of the objects in these pictures are extremely young stars, buried in the centers of these pictures. The wisps of material surrounding the young stars are glowing from reflected starlight. Read more: * Release Text [ http://hubblesite.o…] General Information
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*Credit (top left):* Deborah Padgett, IPAC/Caltech
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*Credit (top left):* Deborah Padgett, IPAC/Caltech
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*Credit (top right):* Mark McCaughrean, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
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*Credit (top right):* Mark McCaughrean, Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam
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*Credit (bottom right):* Karl Sapelfeldt, JPL/Caltech
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*Credit (bottom right):* Karl Sapelfeldt, JPL/Caltech
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*Release Date*:February 9, 1999 01:00 PM (EST)
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*Release Date*:February 9, 1999 01:00 PM (EST)
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*Title*:Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage for Planet Birth in New Hubble Images
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*Title*:Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage for Planet Birth in New Hubble Images
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-1999-05s
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-1999-05s
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*Top row:*: NICMOS images of IRAS 04302 2247 and Orion 114-426.
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*Top row:*: NICMOS images of IRAS 04302 2247 and Orion 114-426.
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*Bottom row:*: WFPC2 images of HH 30 and HK Tau/c. Image Type: Astronomical/Illustr ation
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*Bottom row:*: WFPC2 images of HH 30 and HK Tau/c. Image Type: Astronomical/Illustr ation
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*Description*:
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.
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*Description*:
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.
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February 9, 1999 01:00 PM (EST)
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February 9, 1999 01:00 PM (EST)
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