NICMOS Peers Through Dust to Reveal Young Stellar Disks
Depicts: CoKu Tau/1, DG Tau B, Haro 6-5B, IRAS 04016+2610, IRAS 04248+2612,IRAS 04302+2247
Copyright: D. Padgett (IPAC/Caltech), W. Brandner (IPAC), K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA
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The following images were taken by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's
Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS). All of the
objects are extremely young stars, 450 light-years away in the
constellation Taurus. Most of the nebulae represent small dust particles
around the stars, which are seen because they are reflecting starlight.
In the color-coding, regions of greatest dust concentration appear
red.
Last Update: 1 September 2019