PHOTO OF THE DAY: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Captures Spots Triple-Star System
By NASA information center // May 18, 2024
HP Tau is known as a T Tauri star
(NASA) – Looking like a glittering cosmic geode, a trio of dazzling stars blaze from the hollowed-out cavity of a reflection nebula in the above image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
The triple-star system is made up of the variable star HP Tau, HP Tau G2, and HP Tau G3.
HP Tau is known as a T Tauri star, a type of young variable star that hasn’t begun nuclear fusion yet but is beginning to evolve into a hydrogen-fueled star similar to our Sun.
T Tauri stars tend to be younger than 10 million years old ― in comparison, our Sun is around 4.6 billion years old ― and are often found still swaddled in the clouds of dust and gas from which they formed.
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