A Cosmic Dark Knight Rises in Spooky 'Bat Wing' Hubble Photo

A Cosmic Dark Knight Rises in Spooky 'Bat Wing' Hubble Photo

A Cosmic Dark Knight Rises in Spooky 'Bat Wing' Hubble Photo







Stand aside, Batman: your bat signal has nothing in a huge "bat shadow". Hubble Space Telescope Seen in a cloud of distant gas.



	

	Just in time for Halloween, the new image shows a "striking shadow" in the Serpens Nebula, which is about 1,300 light-years from Earth, officials of the European Space Agency. said in a declaration. The astronomers dubbed it the bat's shadow, because, well, it looks a lot like a bat with outstretched wings.

		You can see the two black stripes that extend from each side of a star called HBC 672, which is illuminating the surrounding gas cloud (or nebula). While the bat's wings are a creepy sight, there is a natural explanation for them: they occur because the HBC 672 is surrounded by a disk    of material That could one day become planets.





						


The amazing "bat shadow" projected by the young star HBC 672 can be seen in this Hubble telescope view of part of the Serpens Nebula.

            						    Credit: NASA / ESA / StSCi 


		"By clinging tightly to the star, the disk creates an imposing shadow, much larger than the disk: approximately 200 times the diameter of our own solar system," ESA officials wrote. "The shadow of the disk is similar to that produced by a cylindrical lamp screen, light escapes from the top and bottom of the screen, but along its circumference, the dark cones of the shadow are formed."



		Most of the shadow is jet black, but astronomers see some color changes along the edges. This helps researchers learn more about the size and composition of the dust grains on the disk, added ESA officials. The shadow function is quite striking, but it is only the angle that makes it seem unusual; These shadows are actually very common around young stars.





						


A view of the Serpens Nebula of the HAWK-I instrument at the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile. The filters used here cover wavelengths similar to those Hubble can see.

            						    Credit: ESO 


		"The entire Serpens Nebula, of which this image shows only a small part, could harbor more of these shadow projections.The nebula envelops hundreds of young stars, many of which could also be forming planets in a protoplanetary disk" ESA he added.

		If you use your bat vision, you can even see another shadow similar to a bat in the same image, in the upper left corner. Maybe the shadows are not scary enough to scare Gotham, but they are clear signs that show how our solar system I used to look. Scientists commonly study protoplanetary disks to learn more about the history of our solar system.





						


A wide field view from the Serpens Nebula and its surroundings from the Digitalized Sky Survey.

            						    Credit: NASA / ESA / Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Recognition: Davide De Martin) 


		Hubble has hosted other spooky views in the past. Just look at this Gallery of nebulae for some examples..



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