A Protoplanetary Disk Silhouetted Against the Orion Nebula
Orion Nebula, NGC 1976, M42
About 1,500 light-years (460 parsecs)
Principal Astronomers: J. Bally (University of Colorado, Boulder), H. Throop (Southwest Research Institute, Boulder), C.R. O’Dell (Vanderbilt University)
J. Bally (University of Colorado) and H. Throop (SWRI)