Bat Shadow
![](https://cdn.sci.esa.int/documents/34247/35306/1567213869166-heic1819d_625.jpg)
Date: 30 October 2018
Satellite: Hubble Space Telescope
Depicts: HBC 672, Serpens nebula
Copyright: NASA, ESA, and STScI, CC BY 4.0
This image shows only the feature which was nicknamed the Bat Shadow. It is the shadow of a protoplanetary disc orbiting the star HBC 672 in the centre of the image.
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Last Update: 1 September 2019