HUBBLE ATLAS
Protoplanetary Disc (M 42 , Messier 42 , NGC 1976 , Orion Proplyd) — image from the Hubble Space Telescope

Exoplanets

Protoplanetary Disc

June 13, 1994 · ESA/Hubble · M 42 , Messier 42 , NGC 1976 , Orion Proplyd

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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.