HK Tauri
stsci_1999-05m February 9th, 1999
Credit: Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) and colleagues, and NASA
HK Tauri is the first example of a young binary star system with an edge-on disk around one member of the pair. The thin, dark disk is illuminated by the light of its hidden central star. The absence of jets indicates that the star is not actively accreting material from this disk. The disk diameter is 20 billion miles. The brighter primary star appears at top of the image.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1999/news-1999-05
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- ID
- 1999-05m
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.2 B.3.7.2 B.3.6.1
- Subject Name
- HK Tauri, CoKu Tau/1
- Credits
- Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) and colleagues, and NASA
- Release Date
- 1999-02-09T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- 450
- Redshift
- 450
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/1999/news-1999-05
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 67.98391233698, 24.39887774462
- Reference Dimension
- 356.00, 356.00
- Reference Pixel
- 136.81329214535, -230.14559778032
- Scale
- -0.00000134286, 0.00000134286
- Rotation
- -149.59783437000
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center FITS X FITS Y EPO X EPO Y 429.48 372.09 150.00 87.00 437.49 394.95 219.04 291.61 441.16 396.45 258.62 307.45 431.49 390.94 178.06 264.14 Center Pixel Coordinates: 178.00 67.98427723749 178.00 24.39843830868
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://hubblesite.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://hubblesite.org/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p9905m-f-356x356.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI-H-p9905m-f-356x356.tif
- Related Resources
- http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1999/05
- Metadata Date
- 2022-07-06T00:00:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
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