Proplyds in the Orion Nebula
esahubble_opo9545k November 20th, 1995
Credit: NASA, C.R. O'Dell and S.K. Wong (Rice University)
This picture shows glowing protoplanetary disks (first discovered with the Hubble in 1992, and dubbed "proplyds") that are believed to be embryonic solar systems that will eventually form planets. (Our solar system has long been considered the relic of just such a disk that formed around the newborn Sun). The abundance of such objects in the Orion nebula strengthens the argument that planet formation is a common occurrence in the universe.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545k/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
- ID
- opo9545k
- Subject Category
- B.4.1.2 B.4.2.3.3
- Subject Name
- Messier 42, Orion Nebula, Orion Proplyd
- Credits
- NASA, C.R. O'Dell and S.K. Wong (Rice University)
- Release Date
- 1995-11-20T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9545k/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 83.8263168657, -5.40320667695
- Reference Dimension
- 377.0, 372.0
- Reference Pixel
- 188.5, 186.0
- Scale
- -1.27055749451e-05, 1.27055749451e-05
- Rotation
- 44.360000000000021
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9545k
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9545k.tif
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- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:45:01+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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