# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CB6lrgRHBgO
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11733980-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-06-26T22:42:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

Can you see the shadows of "wings" near the top of this NASAHubble image? 🦇⁣
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Our Hubble Space Telescope saw a fledgling star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casting a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region. Astronomers nicknamed this feature the “Bat Shadow,” because it resembles a pair of wings. The shadow moves as the disk - a circling structure of gas, dust, and rock - rotates around the young star, known as HBC 672.⁣
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Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI⁣
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#NASA #Hubble #Shadows #Cosmos #HubbleFriday #OuterSpace

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