Vast Stellar Disks Set Stage for Planet Birth in New Hubble Images

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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 top of the image.

Object Name: HK Tauri

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: Karl Stapelfeldt (JPL) and colleagues, and NASA

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The above image is part of a montage:

Montage Image: Young Stars Surrounded by Disks of Dust Image Type: Astronomical/Annotated PRC1999-05b

HH 30 model comparison Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration

Herbig-Haro 30 Image Type: Astronomical

DG Tauri B: A Star With a Thick Dust Lane and Bright Gas Jet Image Type: Astronomical

Haro 6-5B: A Disk of Dust Around a Star Image Type: Astronomical

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