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English: This observation captures the variable star HP Tau, which lies more than 550 light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. This image was created using data from the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. HP Tau is a T Tauri star, a young and chaotic type of star that is settling into a more sedate phase of stellar life known as the main sequence. The length of time that a star spends on the main sequence will depend on its mass. Our Sun, for example, is about halfway through its roughly 10-billion-year main-sequence lifetime.HP Tau is part of a triple star system — the three separate stars are visible at the center of this image — surrounded by a large arcing reflection nebula. These nebulae, as the name suggests, reflect the light from nearby stars rather than glowing like emission nebulae elsewhere in the Universe. |
Date | 4 January 2023 (upload date) |
Source | Triple Stellar Treat |
Author | KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Massey Image processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) |
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Credit/Provider | KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. MasseyImage processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab), M. Zamani (NSF’s NOIRLab) & D. de Martin (NSF’s NOIRLab) |
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Source | NSF's NOIRLab |
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Date and time of data generation | 12:00, 4 January 2023 |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop 23.3 (Windows) |
File change date and time | 02:51, 14 December 2022 |
Date and time of digitizing | 13:55, 29 June 2021 |
Date metadata was last modified | 19:51, 13 December 2022 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:5d997aa3-ecc3-4c43-b3ca-8a7f2b5e7314 |
Keywords | HP Tau |
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