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HST image of Protoplanetary Disks in the Orion Nebula

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These four images show frisbee shaped dust disks, called protoplanetary disks, around embryonic stars in the Orion Nebula being blowtorched by a blistering flood of ultraviolet radiation from the region's brightest star. Located 1,500 light years away, the Orion Nebula is the nearest ''star factory'' to Earth. Images were obtained by Hubble Space Telescope's HST Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 WFPC2 Feb. 26, 1998 and Jan. 11, 1999.

NASA Identifier: JSC2001-01458

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1999
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