Protostar HOPS-68 in Orion

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About the Object

Color Mapping

Band	Wavelength	Telescope
Infrared	3.6 µm	Spitzer IRAC
Infrared	4.5 µm	Spitzer IRAC
Infrared	8.0 µm	Spitzer IRAC
Infrared	24.0 µm	Spitzer MIPS

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Astrometrics

Position (J2000): RA = 5^h 35^m 16.3^s; Dec = -6° 0' 51.2"
Field of View: 0.8 x 1.4 degrees
Orientation: North is up
Constellation: Orion

Recent News

05.26.11

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detected tiny green crystals, called olivine, thought to be raining down on a developing star. An arrow points to the embryonic star, called HOPS-68. It is located in the dark filamentary cloud of cold dust and gas, over 5 light-years in length, located just north of the Orion nebula, which is seen here as the bright region at the bottom of the image.

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