A Disk and Jet in Haro 6-5B
Explanation:
Planets condense from disks. Several new
Hubble Space Telescope
pictures of stars surrounded by disks were
released earlier this week.
Since the glare of the central star usually
makes a surrounding disk hard to see, prior observations in
radio and
infrared light were used to isolate
systems where the disk was edge-on,
blocking much of the central starlight.
One such disk system, Haro 6-5B, is
shown above in false color. Here, the
central disk confines the
emitted light into an
hourglass shape.
Complex
dust clouds appear dark.
A powerful protruding
jet is shown in green.
This budding planetary system measures 0.2 light-years across.
Quite possibly, our own
Solar System looked like this about 5 billion years ago.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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