The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the bright variable star V 372 Orion and its companion star.
NASA and the European Space Agency have snapped telescopes that lie in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region located about 1,450 light-years from Earth.
A star count is seen in the upper left corner.
V 372 Orion is a type of fixed variable star known as Orion Variable.
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The bright variable star V 372 Orion takes center stage in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
(ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Bally, M. Robberto)
Orion’s gas and dust can be seen through the image of the Nebula. Orion Variables are common with diffuse nebulae.
The image from the team overlays data from two of the telescope’s instruments — the Advanced Camera for Observation and the Wide Camera III.
Infrared data and visible wavelengths were available for each aperture.
Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis captured this Hubble Space Telescope image on May 19, 2009.
(NASA)
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The remarkable diffraction spikes, which surround the brightest image of the star, are formed when an intense point of light is entangled with the four cavities inside Hubble that support the telescope’s secondary mirror.
In this April 13, 2017, photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
(Laura Betz/NASA via AP, File)
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Comparatively, the James Webb Space Telescope has 6 points due to the hexagonal mirror segments and the 3 quadrilateral structure of the secondary mirror.
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