Proplyds

Proplyds

A Hubble Space Telescope view of a small portion of the Orion Nebula reveals five young stars. Four of the stars are surrounded by gas and dust trapped as the stars formed, but were left in orbit about the star. These are possibly protoplanetary disks, or 'proplyds', that might evolve on to agglo...

By ASHESH DAS RUP

Location: M 42, Messier 42, NGC 1976, Orion Proplyd, Orion Constellation

Tags: Hubble, Space, Orion, Universe, Nebulae, ESA