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Haro 6-5B is a nearly edge-on disk surrounded by a
complex mixture of wispy clouds of dust and gas. In this
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image, the
central star is partially hidden by the disk, but can be
pinpointed by the stubby jet (shown in green), which it
emits. The dark disk extends 32 billion miles across at a
90-degree angle to the jet. Image: NASA
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HK Tauri is the first example of a young binary star
system with an edge-on disk around one member of the pair.
The thin, dark disk is illuminated by the light of its
hidden central star. The absence of jets indicates that the
star is not actively accreting material from this disk. The
disk diameter is 20 billion miles. The brighter primary star
appears at the top of the image. Image: NASA
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This image shows a newborn binary star system, CoKu
Tau/1, lying at the center of four "wings" of light
extending as much as 75 billion miles from the pair. The
"wings" outline the edges of a region in the stars' dusty
surroundings, which have been cleared by outflowing gas. A
thin, dark lane extends to the left and to the right of the
binary, suggesting that a disk or ring of dusty material
encircles the two young stars. Image: NASA
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An excellent example of the complementary nature of
Hubble's instruments may by found by comparing the Near
Infra-Red Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS)
image of DG Tau B to the visible-light Wide Field and
Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image of the same object. WFPC2
highlights the jet emerging from the system, while NICMOS
penetrates some of the dust near the star to more clearly
outline the 50-billion-mile-long dust lane (the horizontal
dark band, which indicates the presence of a large disk
forming around the infant star). The young star itself
appears as the bright red spot at the corner of the V-shaped
nebula. Image: NASA
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This image of the young star Haro 6-5B shows two bright
regions separated by a dark lane. As seen in the Wide Field
and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) image of the same object, the
bright regions represent starlight reflecting from the upper
and lower surfaces of the disk, which is thicker at its
edges than at its center. The infrared view reveals the
young star just above the dust lane. Image: NASA
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A very young star still deep within the dusty cocoon from
which it formed is shown in this image of IRAS 04016+2610.
The star is visible as a bright reddish spot at the base of
a bowl-shaped nebula about 100 billion miles across at the
widest point. The nebula arises from dusty material falling
onto a forming circumstellar disk, seen as a partial dark
band to the left of the star. The necklace of bright spots
above the star is an image artifact. Image: NASA
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