Hubble Telescope & HBC 672 | NASA

In 2017, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a huge wing-shaped shadow cast by a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk. The young star, called HBC 672, is casting the shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region—like a fly wandering into the beam of a flashlight shining on a wall. Now, after observing the shadow again, astronomers report that they see the giant shadow flapping its "wings"!

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Music Credits:
“Floating Freefall” by Jason Steele [ ASCAP ]. Soundcast Music [ SESAC ] and Universal Production Music.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Visualizers: Andi James (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI)
Producer: Paul Morris (KBRwyle) [Lead]
Technical support: Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET)