A Star in Making
Description
False color image of a star in making located in the Orion Nebula. The color represents the radio emission detected by the Very Large Array telescope using its most extended configuration, and thus allowed to reach a spatial resolution of about 20 AU. This image reveals its protoplanetary disk observed edge-on (the strongest clump, that has a size comparable to of our solar system) together with its outflow, that is perpendicular to the disk (the two faint clumps). In the right bottom corner is shown an artist's conception of this phenomenon.
This radio image was obtained from the project AZ154. In this project we mapped the OMC1 South region in the Orion nebula using the VLA in its "A" configuration at 7mm, getting thus an angular resolution of about 0.05".
Creator
Legacy Astronomical Images
Rights
NRAO/AUI/NSF does not hold full copyright for this image. Contact the archivist for details.
Type
Legacy Astronomical Image
Object Name
144-351
Photo Credit
Luis Zapata, UNAM/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Investigators
Luis A. Zapata, Luis F. Rodriguez, Paul T.P. Ho
Telescope
Very Large Array (VLA)
Observation Date
2004-11-04
Type of Observation
continuum
Band
Q
Wavelength
7 mm
Frequency
45 GHz
Center of Image
RA 5:24:0.000, Dec: -5:35:13.500 (J2000)
Field of View
0.016667 x 0.016667 degrees
Notes
Contact the archivist for a high resolution tif of this image.
Series
Galactic Sources Series
Unit
Star Forming Regions Unit
Citation
Legacy Astronomical Images, “A Star in Making,” NRAO/AUI Archives, accessed August 17, 2024, https://www.nrao.edu/archives/items/show/33489.