In a stellar nursery called the Serpens Nebula, nearly 1,300 light-years away, a young star's game of shadow play is revealing secrets of its unseen planet-forming disk. The near-infrared vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the shadow cast by the fledgling star's brilliant light being blocked by this disk. Named HBC 672, this Sun-like star is surrounded by a debris ring of dust, rock and ice — a disk that is too small and too distant to be seen, even by Hubble. But like a little fly that wanders into the beam of a flashlight shining on a wall, its shadow is projected large upon the cloud in which it was born. In this Hubble image, the feature — nicknamed the "Bat Shadow" — spans approximately 200 times the length of our solar system. It is visible in the upper right portion of the picture. 💫 More info on NASA.gov/Hubble ✨Happy #spacesaturday folks!! Credit: NASA #nasa #hubble #space #telescope #nebula #shadows #stars #starstuff #explore #wonder