# @nasaartemis on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BpuVPWaAfoI
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/15343399-nasaartemis-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-11-03T15:54:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA Artemis (@nasaartemis) — https://gondola.cc/nasaartemis

## Caption

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

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shadows, starstuff, nasa, hubble, spacesaturday, space, explore, nebula, wonder, telescope, stars

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