The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of the bright variable star V 372 Orionis and its companion star.
The NASA and European Space Agency telescopes have captured stars located in the Orion Nebula, a star-forming region 1,450 light-years from Earth.
The companion star appears in the upper left corner.
V 372 Orionis is a special type of variable star known as an Orion Variable.
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Bright variable star V 372 Orionis takes center stage in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image.
(ESA / Hubble & NASA ، J. Bally ، M. Robberto)
The varying gases and dust from the Orion nebulae can be seen throughout the image. Orion variables are usually associated with diffuse nebulae.
The team image overlays data from two of the telescope’s instruments – the Advanced Survey Camera and Wide Field Camera 3.
Infrared data and visible wavelengths were overlaid to reveal details of the area.
An astronaut aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis captured this image from the Hubble Space Telescope on May 19, 2009.
(NASA)
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In particular, the diffraction peaks surrounding the brightest stars in the image formed when an intense point source of light interacted with four rotors inside Hubble that support the telescope’s secondary mirror.
In this April 13, 2017 image provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
(Laura Betz/NASA via AP, File)
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Comparatively speaking, those of the James Webb Space Telescope are six-headed because of the hexagonal mirror segments and the three-legged support structure of the secondary mirror.
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