Hubble captures stunning stellar duo in Orion Nebula 1,450 light-years away
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the bright variable star V 372 Orionis and a companion star.
NASA and the European Space Agency telescope have captured the stars, which lie in the Orion Nebula, a region of stellar formation about 1,450 light-years away from Earth.
The companion star can be seen in the top left corner.
V 372 Orionis is a particular type of variable star known as an Orion variable.
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The bright variable star V372 Orionis is at the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
(ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, M. Robberto)
Fragmentary gas and dust from the Orion Nebulae are seen throughout the image. Orion variables are often associated with diffuse nebulae.
The team’s image overlays data from two of the telescope’s instruments: the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3.
The data at infrared and visible wavelengths were layered to reveal details of the area.
An astronaut aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this image from the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009.
(NASA)
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In particular, the diffraction peaks around it the brightest stars of the image was formed when an intense point light source interacted with the four vanes in Hubble that support the telescope’s secondary mirror.
In this April 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
(Laura Betz/NASA via AP, file)
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For comparison: that of the James Webb Space Telescope are six-pointed because of the hexagonal mirror segments and the 3-leg support structure for the secondary mirror.
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