The Dynamic HH-30 Disk and Jet
Depicts: HH-30
Copyright: NASA, Alan Watson (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Karl Stapelfeldt (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), John Krist and Chris Burrows (European Space Agency/Space Telescope Science Institute).
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These images of HH 30 show changes over only a five-year period in the disk and jets of this newborn star,
which is about half a million years old. The pictures were taken between 1995 and 2000 with the Wide Field
and Planetary Camera 2 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers are interested in the disk
because it is probably similar to the one from which the Sun and the planets in our solar system formed.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
