The two bright regions, separated by a dark hrozontal lane, represent starlight reflecting from the upper and lower surfaces of the disk which surrounds the young star. The disk is seen to be flared, and the star is seen just below the dust lane.

Image taken with the HST's NICMOS camera, in the constellation of Taurus, 140 pc away. Most of the nebulae represent small dust particles around the stars, which are seen because they are reflecting starlight. In the colour-coding, regions of greatest dust concentration appear red.

All photo credits: D. Padgett (IPAC/Caltech), W. Brandner (IPAC), K. Stapelfeldt (JPL) and NASA.
Taken from STSci Press Releases 9/2/99

Last Updated: 12 February 1999

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