NASA's Hubble telescope spots cosmic pair of flapping ‘Bat Wings’ in space, watch video

NASA’s Hubble Telescope, in new observation, captured stunning ims that resemble a pair of flapping bat wings in cosmos almost 1,300 light-years from Earth. new observations, published on June 25, show ims of HBC 672. Nicknamed Bat Show, young star lies in Serpens Nebula.

star is surrounded by a sdle-shaped disk which creates show resembling flipping bat wings. disc is a circling structure of gas, dust, and rock, and is too small and too distant to be seen, even by Hubble. However, based on projected show, scientists do kw that its height-to-rius ratio is 1:5. wing-like showy feature appears to be so large that it stretches out about 200 times diameter of entire solar system. star is called ‘young’ as it is just one or two million years old which is t too long a period in cosmic term. 

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In a new study, researchers observed star with help of Hubble and ticed show "flapping." Led by Klaus Pontoppidan, an astromer at Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, researchers didn't expect to see showy feature "flapping." But as researchers observed show over a period of 13 months, y could see that it has moved. 

Imagine whole phemen of show casting as a lamp which with a she that casts a show on wall. However, in case of cosmic bat wings, star is lamp, disk surrounding it acts as a lampshe to cast show on a distant cloud. This illustration given below shows a fledgeling star surrounded by a sdle-shaped disk which has two peaks and two dips. warping could possibly be caused by a planet embedded in disk which could possibly be inclined to disk's plane. As disk rotates around young star, it is thought to block light from that star and cast a varying, flapping show on a distant cloud.

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"You have a star that is surrounded by a disc, and disc is t like Saturn's rings — it's t flat. It's puffed up," Pontoppidan said in a statement. "And so that means that light from star, if it goes straight up, can continue straight up — it's t blocked by anything. But if it tries to go along plane of disk, it doesn't get out, and it casts a show." 

team of researchers calculated that a planet warping disc would orbit its star in at least 180 days. distance is estimated to be about same distance from its star as Earth is from Sun. team also suggest disc must be flared, with an angle that increases with distance — like a trumpet. While researchers believe that a planet is embedded in disc, y also highlighted possibility of lower-mass stellar companion orbiting HBC 672 outside plane of disc. However, it remains a less likely explanation considering  thickness of disc. Evidence for a binary companion has also t been obtained yet.

(Im credits: NASA)

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