Protoplanetary Disc

Protoplanetary Disc

A Hubble Space Telescope view of a very young star (between 300, 000 and a million years of age) surrounded by material left over from the star's formation. The cool, reddish star is about one fifth the mass of our Sun.

By ASHESH DAS RUP

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

Tags: Hubble, Space, Universe, Nebulae, ESA