Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage for Planet Birth in New Hubble Images (1999)
1999 · Short film
Synopsis
*Description*: The following images were taken by NASA 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.: CoKu Tau/1. This image shows a newborn binary star system, CoKu…
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