#Hubble sees a cosmic flapping ‘Bat Shadow’
“#Hubble sees a cosmic flapping ‘Bat Shadow’” Astronomers using Hubble previously captured a remarkable image of a young star’s unseen, planet-forming disk casting a huge shadow across a more distant cloud in a star-forming region. The star is called HBC 672, and the shadow feature was nicknamed the “Bat Shadow” because it resembles a pair…