Credits: NASA, ESA and STScI. Scientists named the young star HBC 672 and called the shadow function ‘Bat Shadow’. According to NASA, the team of scientists witnessed the flapping for 404 days. Trends Desk Last update: June 27, 2020 7:40 PM IST NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has always sent amazing …
Read More »Bad astronomy | Hubble images show a star casting moving wing-shaped shadows in space
In the Serpens constellation, about 1,400 light years from Earth, a fledgling star flaps its wings. OK, I’m being a little poetic there. It is more like a planet in formation gravitationally deformed from its circumstellar disk into a quadrupole shape, so that the shadow cast by the star on …
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