Hubble Image of a Week – A Stellar Fingerprint

Showcased during a core of this newly expelled NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture is an emission-line star famous as IRAS 12196-6300.

Located only underneath 2300 light-years from Earth, this star displays distinguished glimmer lines, definition that a star’s light, diluted into a spectrum, shows adult as a rainbow of colors noted with a evil settlement of dim and splendid lines. The characteristics of these lines, when compared to a “fingerprints” left by sold atoms and molecules, can be used to exhibit IRAS 12196-6300’s chemical composition.

Under 10 million years aged and not nonetheless blazing hydrogen during a core, distinct a Sun, this star is still in a infancy. Further justification of IRAS 12196-6300’s girl is supposing by a participation of thoughtfulness nebulae. These misty clouds, graphic floating above and next IRAS 12196-6300, are combined when light from a star reflects off a high thoroughness of circuitously dust, such as a dry element still remaining from IRAS 12196-6300’s formation.

Credit: ESA/Hubble NASA

Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt