Hubble Space Telescope We captured a stunning new image of the bright variable star Orion V 372 and its companion star.
NASA and European Space Agency telescopes have snapped stars in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region about 1,450 light-years from Earth.
The companion star is visible in the upper left corner.
V 372 Orionis is a specific type of variable star known as an Orion variable star.
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Bright variable star V 372 Orion lies at the center of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
(ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Barry, M. Roberto)
Patches of gas and dust from the Orion Nebula can be seen throughout the image. Orion variable stars are commonly associated with diffuse nebulae.
The team’s image overlays data from two of the telescope’s instruments: an advanced survey camera and a widefield camera 3.
Data from infrared and visible wavelengths were overlaid to reveal more detail about the area.
Hubble Space Telescope image taken by astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. May 19, 2009.
(NASA)
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In particular, diffraction spikes around brightest star Four of the images were formed when an intense point source interacted with four vanes in Hubble that support the telescope’s secondary mirror.
In this April 13, 2017, NASA-supplied photo, technicians use a crane to lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
(Laura Betts/NASA, AP via File)
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