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Close-up of Three Protoplanetary Disks in the Orion Nebula


Date: 15 December 1992
Satellite: Hubble
Depicts: Protoplanetary Disks
Copyright: NASA/ESA, C.R. O'Dell (Rice University)

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope picture of three protoplanetary disks, called "proplyds" in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region 1500 light-years away.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
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