Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have imaged the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed circling a young star. For the first time in visible light, Hubble has revealed the disk […]
IRAS 23077+6707
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Hubble Reveals Complex Multi-scale Structure In The Edge-on Protoplanetary Disk IRAS 23077+6707
We present high-resolution (<0.1″) Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) imaging of the near edge-on (i~80 deg) protoplanetary disk IRAS 23077+6707 (“Dracula’s Chivito”) obtained across six broadband filters […]